Hello!
I'm looking for a sanity check on a vague plan I'm making for a PVE reinstall on my homelab main server. (TL;DR at bottom)
Basically, when I originally deployed my main pve server, I had intended to setup a hypervisor, virtualized gaming PC, and file server all in one. I spec'd it with specific CPU's and did some CLI tuning/tweaks to try and get the most out of it, and for the most part it worked as I hoped but the gaming performance was crap. Since it didn't fully work I've build another pve host since the CPU's I spec'd were higher speed but lower core count but I wanted to spin up some more always-on VM's. I also have a Synology in another room I back up the file share and VM's to with pve's backup utility (file share is backed up with a basic rsync script).
Now, I've got a new dedicated file server on order that'll be running TrueNAS, side-grading my CPU's to higher core count but lower speed CPUs and going to expand/get bigger SSD's for the VM storage, and then going to repurpose the second pve host as a backup server (to replace the Synology).
Anyways, since my original plans were different I had made a bunch of silly changes to pve. I don't think they're hurting anything but they're not helping, either. With all these changes, I think it makes sense to do a fresh install of pve on the hypervisor and re-import the VM's. I had considered moving all the VM's to my second host then back when I was done, but I don't have the storage on it to support that. So, I need to back up and import. I think I understand this right, but since I already use PVE's backup feature, after I reinstall pve, re-attach the backup location, I can just restore from the backups and the VM's shouldn't really know the difference, right?
TL;DR: So, in short, as long as I have PVE backing up the VM's to a NFS host, if I reinstall PVE on the same box and just re-add the NFS storage location to the datacenter storage, I should be able to restore the VM's from the backups to the fresh install and ... everything's fine?
I'm looking for a sanity check on a vague plan I'm making for a PVE reinstall on my homelab main server. (TL;DR at bottom)
Basically, when I originally deployed my main pve server, I had intended to setup a hypervisor, virtualized gaming PC, and file server all in one. I spec'd it with specific CPU's and did some CLI tuning/tweaks to try and get the most out of it, and for the most part it worked as I hoped but the gaming performance was crap. Since it didn't fully work I've build another pve host since the CPU's I spec'd were higher speed but lower core count but I wanted to spin up some more always-on VM's. I also have a Synology in another room I back up the file share and VM's to with pve's backup utility (file share is backed up with a basic rsync script).
Now, I've got a new dedicated file server on order that'll be running TrueNAS, side-grading my CPU's to higher core count but lower speed CPUs and going to expand/get bigger SSD's for the VM storage, and then going to repurpose the second pve host as a backup server (to replace the Synology).
Anyways, since my original plans were different I had made a bunch of silly changes to pve. I don't think they're hurting anything but they're not helping, either. With all these changes, I think it makes sense to do a fresh install of pve on the hypervisor and re-import the VM's. I had considered moving all the VM's to my second host then back when I was done, but I don't have the storage on it to support that. So, I need to back up and import. I think I understand this right, but since I already use PVE's backup feature, after I reinstall pve, re-attach the backup location, I can just restore from the backups and the VM's shouldn't really know the difference, right?
TL;DR: So, in short, as long as I have PVE backing up the VM's to a NFS host, if I reinstall PVE on the same box and just re-add the NFS storage location to the datacenter storage, I should be able to restore the VM's from the backups to the fresh install and ... everything's fine?
