Configuring a Proxmox VE cluster
Now, we are going to the core part of what this book covers, that is, building a cluster with HA. Do you have everything you need now? Here is a list for you to go over quickly:
The following is the hardware checklist:
- Two servers installed with the Proxmox server.
- Shared storage that is accessible to all servers as quorum and VM storage. Such storage can be built using NAS4free or other alternatives; here, I have configured a NAS4free server with the IP address as
192.168.1.50. - Two network cards on each server connected separately to the two network switches to test the network-fencing ability.
The following is the software checklist:
- Proxmox servers are configured with the network settings mentioned before and should be able to ping each other
- Bonding devices Bond0 and Bond1 should be well configured
To minimize the number of physical machines needed, I will demonstrate building up a two-node cluster for you. However, please note that the two-node cluster should...
