Hey there,
I am a newbie to Proxmox and HA, so sorry for possibly dumb questions.
I installed the most rexent Proxmox on a HP 800 G4 and there the HA.
Did I get it right:
Are there any tweaks I should do ?
The storage statistics look a bit weird, but this is due to thin provisioning, right ?
Thanks in advance for any help.
S.
In general thin provisioning is fine for HA, just make sure that you don’t over-provision the storage.
Thanks fo the reply
I installed the HAOS on Proxmox via teh standard script.
Where can I see/change the currently provisioned storage space?
S.
I don’t use proxmox but you’ll likely see it on the vms settings.
When you have got the hang of your new setup, look for the “Proxmox VE” integration - you can expose stats from proxmox to HA and keep an eye on them, including things like the usage of local-lvm… you don’t want that to fill up, because you will get all kinds of weird errors on the HA database if that happens, as I found out when I was playing around after switching to proxmox on a pc a few weeks ago. In particular, leaving lots of snapshots lying around can increase the amount of disk used considerably. So experiment with them (it’s a great feature) but don’t leave them if you don’t need them.
I’m planning to install Proxmox on my PC with 2 harddisks and 32GB Ram, do you have any advice when installing Proxmox by USB ISO?
Is it possible to do disk partitioning at the beginning of the installation like you can do when installing Ubuntu?
Should I install Proxmox graphical or terminal? Is it possible to install Windows vm besides the HA vm in Proxmox so I can use the pc also to do some basic stuff on it or should you better only use it for 1 vm with HA?
Proxmox will install as the only one on the system. Since it need to be running to start up the VM’s. So dual booting would defeat its purpose.
What you do is run whatever you want (like windows) in a VM on Proxmox.
The GUI will be handled via the web interface, you only have the console when you hook up a monitor to it.
So install HA as a VM or LXC, install Windows on a VM and whatever more you want to run /test on it.
Thanks Charles
Yes that was my intention to install Windows, Ubuntu and ofcourse HA, which is my main goal, in VM’s not as dual boot.
OK, sorry, LXC is Linux container.
Well I’m running now HA in a VM in Windows Oracle Virtualbox on Intel NUC but I got the tip here to think about using Proxmox with VM and HA because it’s easier to restore a Virtualbox backup into Proxmox VM HA
I suggest you start by following this guide. Couldn’t be easier to install HA or Proxmox itself.
Don’t do that please. Just take a normal HA backup, download it somewhere safe, then restore it on the onboarding screen once you have your new install up & running.
Dear ShadowFist
is it a must to run the testing repo on Proxmox to install the HA in this way?
Testing repo indicated for me that there might be some buge in the software and might harm the stability of the Proxmox installtion.
By the way I followed the installation steps as posted, it worked fine, but I fear for the system.
Testing Repo? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of it.
Can you tell me where this was referenced?
I believe they are referring to the Proxmox repo.
You can use the “no subscription” repo just fine. Or you can pay the subscription if you want support.
Absolutely the best advice. I migrated from Windows running VirtualBox to HAOS on Proxmox with no issues at all using this method.
I would also recommend using the ZFS file system for Proxmox. With ZFS if you add a second or third node you can use replication and High Availability to have Home Assistant migrate automatically to a running node. Also great for maintenance.
