Anyone to share any pitfalls for running PVE cluster with (some) nodes as guests themselves under another T1 (non-KVM) hypervisor?
3+ nodes (each on different physical machines), low latency network, no need to passthrough any hardware, in fact no need to run VMs, only CTs, however (!) in HA setup. Shared storage, no CEPH. Alternatively, mixed situation when you can e.g. afford multiple PVE nodes as guests only, but have 1-2 nodes also bare metal install.
Not here to promote any specific brand or particular setup, but I just want to know real-life experiences of anyone running this (under whatever constraints of theirs). Corosync is not multicast anymore since a while, so can't think of anything that might become a major hassle in theory. Dry-run tested and it seemed to work short-term just fine. But just seen posts of people complaining about opposite setup issues (when PVE is the bare-metal host and another hypervisor guests).
Thanks for any valid input.
3+ nodes (each on different physical machines), low latency network, no need to passthrough any hardware, in fact no need to run VMs, only CTs, however (!) in HA setup. Shared storage, no CEPH. Alternatively, mixed situation when you can e.g. afford multiple PVE nodes as guests only, but have 1-2 nodes also bare metal install.
Not here to promote any specific brand or particular setup, but I just want to know real-life experiences of anyone running this (under whatever constraints of theirs). Corosync is not multicast anymore since a while, so can't think of anything that might become a major hassle in theory. Dry-run tested and it seemed to work short-term just fine. But just seen posts of people complaining about opposite setup issues (when PVE is the bare-metal host and another hypervisor guests).
Thanks for any valid input.
Last edited:
