I’m wondering if it’s a good idea to have HA, ZMQTT, MQTT broker as separate vm’s in Proxmox to keep the Zigbee network up and running if HA OS would fail. But if the HA OS fails all automations will not work so I’m wondering is it worth the time, work and patience to do this?
If you are going this route I would suggest containers rather than vms. Personally I would not do it, too much hassle for too little gain.
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OK thanks, I won’t do it, I also think it does not have such a big advantage. I now run HA OS in a VM. But I’m thinking to setup another pc with Proxmox and HA OS in a VM as backup.
If you already run Proxmox, look into a backup software like for example Veeam - then you can do snapshot based backup, no need for a separate vm as backup.
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@fleskefjes Why veeam over PBS or the integrated backup?
@rytecbe Why another machine?
It was just an example. I use another hypervisor my self so not familiar with Proxmox.
If my actual hardware pc should fail, it would be easy to startup another machine and take the latest backup or synchronized vm to get HA online in no time.