Building a 2-Node Proxmox VE Cluster

From VMware to Proxmox #

Initially I had started out with a single vSphere node running vSphere 6.7.I had a few Ubuntu server VMs running docker containers and samba shares for additional storage. After the Broadcom acquisition I discovered Proxmox which eventually led me to me migrating over.

I built out a virtual environment comprised of two PVE nodes running a raspberry pi acting as the QDevice to keep the cluster in quorum and to act as the Tang server. I’ll cover Tang in more detail in a different post, but essentially my encrypted Linux VMs leverage Clevis to phone into the Tang server which unlocks them, this provides a secure convenience. I also have an LXC container running Twingate on one of the PVE nodes that allows for seamless zero trust access into my environment remotely.