multiple nodes joining the cluster all at once

FredG

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Feb 12, 2024
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Hi,

I've been playing around with proxmox and salt to deploy pve on mutliple nodes and setup a cluster automatically.
It works well appart from the state where the nodes are trying to join the cluster at the same time.
I end up and a bunch of nodes in a confused state thinking that they are alone in a cluster, and my "master" node also confused with a bunch of nodes with the red "X" and some with the grey "?" on the webui. Also get some quorum errors after that.
Adding the nodes one by one works as expected with no problem at all.

Now, I'm just wondering if what I'm trying to do is supported? can we have multiple nodes asking the same "master" server at the same time (testing with 8 nodes at the moment) to join the cluster? if not, is there a way for a node to know that the "master" server is currently busy with other requests?
I could also think of something like adding all nodes to the cluster from the master? or having a random delay between each nodes trying to reach the cluster?
Maybe there is an API call I can do before trying to join the cluster that would tell me that the "master" is currently busy?

Any tips appreciated,

Best regards
 

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