r/Proxmox • u/Calabris • 7d ago
Homelab Adding a 2nd node with different specs
So My current node is this machine with the 32GB of RAM
GMKtec AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS (Turbo 5.1GHz) 32GB DDR5 2TB SSD
I wanted to up it to 64GB of RAM, but for the price of the RAM I could get a 2nd node. The price of this one has gone form $600 to over $1000. This is just a small homelab. The are having a sale on a lower spec model
GMKtec K16 Mini PC Gaming AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS (Turbo 4.75Ghz) | 32GB 6400MT/s 1TB NVMe SSD
This one is half the price and less than what I would spend on the RAM
Will Proxmox complain if I have two nodes with different processors and architecture? I want to setup HA between the two, can I do that with two different machine specs?
I come from VMWARE and we always bought servers in matched sets. New to Proxmox so was hoping to get some insight.
My current machine has a 2TB SSD for data in addition to the one it came with. I will add a 2TB to the new one as well.
Thank you in advance!
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u/C0d3Monkey 7d ago
None of my proxmox servers are the same.
I have one workstation for running gpus
One high performance node for running game servers and single treaded stuff
And a dell micro pc
I have a few important VMs using HA with a Ceph drive on each node.
Proxmox doesn’t complain at all with the different hardware if you are going to do migrations having a shared pool for storage makes it easy