No HA, but, multi-ProxMox servers in one UI (First World Problem)

[Pontiac]

Bottom line, I don't need high availability. There is nothing I use on my machines that MUST be up 100%, or, at least can wait until I get home to fix it. From what I've read, I need additional physical hardware for proper HA anyways, and, really, it isn't something I'm interested in getting for home use.

That said, I am pondering on getting two ProxMox physical machines up and running, both managing different kinds of virtual machines. The one I currently have setup is basically going to be managing the stuff I need up as much as possible (PBX/Router/Web Page/etc) and the other is going to be running things (Provided I go this route) such as minecraft servers, a VM I can VNC/RDP into from work if needed, etc. Pretty much stuff of zero importance, and could care less if the motherboard dies the moment I get everything running. (I'll be out $500 as the hardware isn't being made or sold anymore, which will get my a bit upset, but, meh)

However, I'd like to be able to manage both of these machines from one UI. I won't ever need to move a VM from one machine to another (I can manually move the files over if needed, or, restore a backup if I share the backup resource), but managing both sets of machines from a different UI is a bit cumbersome.

So the terminology is going to be new to me, and I'm not sure exactly what to look for. Can anyone give me pointers either here, or links at the wiki that'll get me to put both PM machines in one management UI?

Edit: Digging around I found https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/High_Availability_Cluster_:_Simple_version which looks simple enough. Am I to assume that pushing these commands, I can get what I want out of the first section and then ignore the rest?

 

[alatteri]

It isn't hard at all to have 2 bookmarks for each server... done. No hassle.

 

[nethfel]

You don't really need HA, you just create a cluster. It'd be better if you can create a cluster with 3 machines (even if the third machine just has the basic proxmox install with no vms running on it), but you can get away with using a quorum disk which you can find the details on here: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Two-Node_High_Availability_Cluster#Create_the_Quorum_Disk . You can cheat and just use 2 nodes, the only problem is if you take one down for maintenance, you'll basically stop the other from working without using a quorum disk or a 3rd machine to maintain quorum for the running vms.