TLDR Are there disadvantages or caveats to using a low spec node as Master in a Proxmox cluster?
I have four machines in my home setup. Two with Xeon E3-1220L (8 & 16GB RAM), and two with dual E5s and 128GB RAM. Only one of the E3 machines is on 24/7 as a NAS (bare metal Open Media Vault). The others (two currently on ESXi Free and one with Proxmox), are only on during the day/when I need them to keep noise/heat/consumption down in my home office/cave. I assume that if I switch them all to Proxmox and cluster them, I'd want the master node to be the one that's always on? Any issues with using the low end machine for this?
I'm strictly a home user at this point, so no plans for HA, failover, or shared storage. I'd be doing this mostly for ease of management and my own education.
I'm relatively inexperienced with virtualization so any recommendations & advice are greatly appreciated.
I have four machines in my home setup. Two with Xeon E3-1220L (8 & 16GB RAM), and two with dual E5s and 128GB RAM. Only one of the E3 machines is on 24/7 as a NAS (bare metal Open Media Vault). The others (two currently on ESXi Free and one with Proxmox), are only on during the day/when I need them to keep noise/heat/consumption down in my home office/cave. I assume that if I switch them all to Proxmox and cluster them, I'd want the master node to be the one that's always on? Any issues with using the low end machine for this?
I'm strictly a home user at this point, so no plans for HA, failover, or shared storage. I'd be doing this mostly for ease of management and my own education.
I'm relatively inexperienced with virtualization so any recommendations & advice are greatly appreciated.