Proxmox Best Setup?

[Mrdude]

So i have been Toying with the Notion of kicking it up a notch of my use of Proxmox... But before i go getting stuff, i wanted to find out what you think a good solution for my needs would be??? (What would need to be done as in what type of setup i should look into??)

I have a max of 30-lightweight Vms ranging from PBX, Win Exchange, to Win Xp, maybe some database servers?
Having uptime (Like most people) is a bigger issue, or recovery from a major failure in a short time with relative ease...
I would prefer to stay under 3-nodes and have all of them connected and easy to share stuff...


One thing i have looked into is a two node cluster connected to a Freenas based ISCSI ----Thoughts?

I am not a rich man Sadly... so i have a relatively small budget

What have you used??

Thanks a bunch!!

 

[thheo]

What I see wrong with your approach is that you want computing redundancy ( 2 nodes ), but for storage it seems you have a major single-point-of-failure having a single box without internal redundancy ( yes I imagine it would have some raid, but it's still a simple box with one motherboard ).
When I chose to go for a 2-node HA with DRBD to "emulate" shared storage and have redundancy I was limited by a 10k EUR budget, but it would have been nicer to have a real storage with dual-controller..
So if you don't have the budget try to understand how DRBD works and maybe this could be a better choice for full redundancy..