Replication of VMs from NodeA to NodeB without cluster

[insel]

Hello.

I have a question about best practive for replication of VMs from NodeA to NodeB. At the moment we replicate ESXi VMs from NodeA to NodeB. If NodeA fails, the VMs will be started on NodeB manually. What would be best practive for that?

From what i have found, we would need a custer and Storage Replication. Maybe HA too. But we would like to go without a cluster because of complexity and because a cluster should include at least a third Node. (We do not need to migrate VMs from one running Node to a second one.)

Without a 3 node cluster - correct me if i'm wrong - we could use a "2 node cluster" but that would require "fakeing" quorum and manual interaction on CLI level which i would like to prevent.

We will do backups to a network storage, so would best practive be to (live) restore the backup from storage on the second node? (But we would really like to have the same comfort as we have with our Veeam replication setup at the moment.)

Is this maybe a feature of the Proxmox Backup Server?

Any input would be highly appreciated(!).

Thanks, Sebastian

 

[bbgeek17]

Without a cluster your options are:
a) PBS, i.e. frequent incremental backups/restores
b) "qm remote-migrate" (man qm)
c) manual ZFS replication behind PVE

d) wait for details on Veeam support announcement to see if they have something better

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[insel]

Thank you very much. I'll test my options.