[PVE-User] 2node cluster

[ronny+pve-user at aasen.cx]

On 20. juni 2018 12:44, Tonči Stipičević wrote:
> Hello to all
> 
> I'm testing pve-storage-zsync and it works pretty well on my 3node 
> cluster .   One VM from origin node is replicating to other two nodes 
> and when I shutdown origin node , I can start VM from it's replicated 
> image on one of the other nodes w/o any issues/problems. If I make some 
> changes to this replicated image , after starting "dead" node back 
> again, replication overrides those changes and so on ...
> 
> So this is possible because we still have quorum .  However real 
> scenario will have only two nodes in cluster and the problem arises when 
> one node shuts down and there is no quorum any more.
> 
> Then we have to lower "votes" on the surviving node.
> 
> Since I want to make zfs-sync (disaster recovery) test with 2node 
> cluster ,  the question would be: Is it possible to start "dead" node 
> back again and restore "votes" value on the surviving node ?      Will 
> the cluster accept this "dead" node back ?
> 
> I have never done this before  and just want to be prepared for 
> reinstalling dead node if it cannot get back into the cluster again ....
> 
> Thank you very much in advance
> 

personally i would just run a raspberry or similar proxmox node as a 
third tiebreaker node.

kind regards
Ronny Aasen