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    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/ANARCHY/CRBBSNET to All on Fri Dec 9 08:13:00 2022
    I spent the day yesterday trying to install Nutanix CE, a hyperconverged virtual platform I'm using at work. It's a great package for a remote
    office, you can get firewall, networking and virtual machines in a highly available form factor - 3 nodes in 2u.

    I couldn't get it to install in a VM under Promox or a spare laptop I had - both times failing fatally because it couldn't light a chassis light. Odd.

    I took the time to add a 1TB NVME to my new homelab server, a SFF optiplex 3050 with an i5 and 32 GB of RAM. Nice little box. Unfortunately, it doesn't support an i7, but this'll do.

    I wanted to move my VMs over to it, and most pointers online referenced backing them up, moving the snapshots and importing them into the new
    server. For kicks, I tried adding the two servers into a cluster. I could migrate the servers just fine, and it appeared that if I broke the cluster properly, the servers would end up at the destination.

    It might be worth a try. For now, my current server is holding its own, but
    it would be nice to move to a proper desktop, get a faster disk subsystem
    and faster CPU.


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  • From vorlon@VERT/ANARCHY/CRBBSNET to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Dec 10 10:30:07 2022
    Hi poindexter FORTRAN,

    I wanted to move my VMs over to it, and most pointers online
    referenced backing them up, moving the snapshots and importing them
    into the new server. For kicks, I tried adding the two servers into a cluster. I could migrate the servers just fine, and it appeared that
    if I broke the cluster properly, the servers would end up at the destination.

    I've not looked at the clustering in Proxmox. But I'd shutdown the VM's
    use the backup function, copy the backup file to the new host and then
    restore the vm... I've done that in the past, all on the command line.



    \/orlon
    aka
    Stephen


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