use multiple hardware as one system

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dede

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Hello together

I have seen and heard a lot about Proxmox.
Often the statement was, old hardware still continue to use, etc..

Well, I have old hardware, two LapTop which I no longer need, I wanted to know now:

- can I install Proxmox on both laptops and use both laptops as one?
will the system resources be divided accordingly or will I be forced to have two servers and have to use each one separately?

Thanks for your feedback!
 
No;

The laptops will function as individual nodes where individuals virtual machines can be created. Those virtual machines (and storage volumes) can be migrate between the laptops. That's about it.
 
I read somewhere that with Proxmox I can create a "node"

In this it should be possible that I can merge the hardware of both notebooks and Proxmox takes over the management itself and assigns it to the respective computer;

so I should get a resource pool.

Has anyone tried this?
 
dede said:
I read somewhere that with Proxmox I can create a "node"
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Each Proxmox can be setup as a node in a cluster.
dede said:
In this it should be possible that I can merge the hardware of both notebooks and Proxmox takes over the management itself and assigns it to the respective computer;
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That's not how clusters work. Clusters work like jalict described.
dede said:
Has anyone tried this?
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People have asked before on this forum but the answer is always: no, that's not how clustering or virtualization works.
 
dede said:
I read somewhere that with Proxmox I can create a "node"

In this it should be possible that I can merge the hardware of both notebooks and Proxmox takes over the management itself and assigns it to the respective computer;

so I should get a resource pool.

Has anyone tried this?
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The hardware can't be merged in Proxmox. Memory, CPU instructions and what not is only managed by the machine itself.
The storage can be shared across all nodes, but again, only 1 node can access the storage volumes at a time.

If you were to create software where you synced up the state and did some kind of distributed computing, then you could do it I guess. But that isn't really what Proxmox does.

In general; there isn't really anything that can do this at OS level (if that's what you want). You could develop software with distributed computing in mind. But that is very specific to what you want to do; and I am assuming here you "simple" want a OS that runs across multiple machines at the same time, which is not possible.
 
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