Newbie questions

[cliver]

I'm still fairly new to Proxmoxve and woulsd like some advice please.
I currently have 2 nuc devices running the latest proxmox.

1. Intel NUC 13 Pro i7,32GB,1TB SSD - Used for production
2. Beelink AMD Ryzen 7 585OU 32GB RAM !TB SSD - Used foe development/testing

Questions:

1. Should I cluster them?
   1. What would be the advantages/disadvantages of doing so?
   2. I read that 3 is the minimum number of nodes you should cluster. Why is this and is it cast in stone?
2. When creating shared storage on my NAS, is it best practice to create individal shared folders for each item (backups, templates, VM's etc.etc)

My main use case is Home assistant which I have running successfully at the moment. Plan to add others like add blocker, MQTT, a music server (Lyron Probably), and other things as I go along.
I guess the burning question is should I keep the production and test nodes completely seperate or in a cluster before I go down a rabbit hole one way or the other.

All opinions and advice gratefullt recieved.

Thanks in advance.

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[leesteken]

I read that 3 is the minimum number of nodes you should cluster. Why is this and is it cast in stone?

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#_quorum . Two-node clusters cause a lot of issues; see the many threads on this forum about them.

 

[cliver]

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#_quorum . Two-node clusters cause a lot of issues; see the many threads on this forum about them.

Thanks for that. Maybe best keep them apart.
So, an I right in saying that, if I keep them separate but using shared storage on my nas. I can setup and test on the development node, save a backup to the nas and recover that to the production node?

 

[leesteken]

Thanks for that. Maybe best keep them apart.

Maybe this might interest you (with two single-node systems): https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-datacenter-manager-first-alpha-release.159323/

So, an I right in saying that, if I keep them separate but using shared storage on my nas. I can setup and test on the development node, save a backup to the nas and recover that to the production node?

Yes. And that way you don't bring down production when something goes wrong on the development Proxmox.

 

[cliver]

Maybe this might interest you (with two single-node systems): https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/proxmox-datacenter-manager-first-alpha-release.159323/

Yes. And that way you don't bring down production when something goes wrong on the development Proxmox.

Thanks again. The data centre manager looks interesting.
Think I'll be ok going the move via backup route. I'm not looking at a huge system. At least not to start with anyway .