This is not really a support question or anything just a good news story I guess.
A little over 10 years ago I worked IT and we had a ESXi environment with HA and such and naturally I wanted something like that at home too but also didn't want to pay anything so I put the free version of ESXi 5.5 on a single server. At the time I was having issues with Proxmox (don't really remember what) so I told myself I would stick ESXi on there for now and look at Proxmox later if I build another server. It was always my goal to do a cluster with a couple nodes.
Well time went by and only now am I getting around to that. Just ordered 2 SFF boxes from Ebay (so cheap and low power usage and they can fit like 64GB of ram, it's hard to justify a proper server) to act as nodes but with the Canada Post strike they're stuck somewhere in the mail and I didn't feel like waiting anymore. I created to nested Proxmox nodes on my existing ESXi server, made test VMs, tested migrations etc and it was flawless.
Today from work, I just converted/migrated my first ESXi VM to it and it's fully operational. Few minor adjustments with the network settings to do within the OS and that's it. It's actually kind of funny, because this whole thing is running as a VM on ESXi and then I'm migrating other VMs from ESXi onto it.
Some crazy inception stuff going on. Once my real physical machines show up I can then add to cluster and just migrate them over.
Once everything is migrated I'll nuke ESXi from the existing server and then make that into a 3rd Proxmox node. It's been a long time coming but finally going to have a proper HA cluster in my home setup and pretty happy!
A little over 10 years ago I worked IT and we had a ESXi environment with HA and such and naturally I wanted something like that at home too but also didn't want to pay anything so I put the free version of ESXi 5.5 on a single server. At the time I was having issues with Proxmox (don't really remember what) so I told myself I would stick ESXi on there for now and look at Proxmox later if I build another server. It was always my goal to do a cluster with a couple nodes.
Well time went by and only now am I getting around to that. Just ordered 2 SFF boxes from Ebay (so cheap and low power usage and they can fit like 64GB of ram, it's hard to justify a proper server) to act as nodes but with the Canada Post strike they're stuck somewhere in the mail and I didn't feel like waiting anymore. I created to nested Proxmox nodes on my existing ESXi server, made test VMs, tested migrations etc and it was flawless.
Today from work, I just converted/migrated my first ESXi VM to it and it's fully operational. Few minor adjustments with the network settings to do within the OS and that's it. It's actually kind of funny, because this whole thing is running as a VM on ESXi and then I'm migrating other VMs from ESXi onto it.
Some crazy inception stuff going on. Once my real physical machines show up I can then add to cluster and just migrate them over.Once everything is migrated I'll nuke ESXi from the existing server and then make that into a 3rd Proxmox node. It's been a long time coming but finally going to have a proper HA cluster in my home setup and pretty happy!
