Hi All, I am working on building a proxmox cluster for my homelab. The cluster is made up of 3 MS-A2's, each with 64 GB RAM with 1TB +4TB NVMe SSD's. Proxmox is installed on the 1TB drive for all nodes. I am curious what other people's opinions would be for setting up Ceph vs non Ceph for the cluster. Ceph would be using the 4TB drives. I would like to use the USB4 connections for the Ceph Network (linked between the 3 nodes) similar to what Jeff has done here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWZawNdw1k I dont have anything currently running that would require the High Availability that Ceph provides. Most of what would be running on the homelab would be a couple of small servers and a large handful of windows systems for playing with AD and windows administration. It would be nice to mostly seamlessly be able to move VMs around though. The other thought I had about using standard clustering with HA would be that I would have a lot more storage space on each node to use for hosting more VMs or storing various amounts of data. From my (basic) research, it also looks like using Ceph would allow me to take snapshots where as using the 4tb drives as local storage would not. Snapshots would be a cool to have as well. As this is really my first journey into learning about clustering, thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.

For those of you who have a nas or storage server what types of drives do you use/have/like.

Hello, My home network setup is as follows: My home server is a mini PC that has 2 ethernet ports. One of them is connected directly to the ISP router. The other ethernet port in the server is not connected to anything. The ISP router is also connected to a mesh WIFI for other home devices (PCS, laptops, phones, tablets, TVs, etc.). The server has Proxmox installed with some VMs and containers. They are publicly accessible through Cloudflare tunnels using a domain I purchased, and they are working fine with no issues at all. However, I want to secure the VMs and containers using a virtual firewall. What is the best way to do this? If I install pfSense as a VM in Proxmox, should I connect the physical server to the mesh WIFI? If yes, then what's the point of this? The VMs and the containers are not connected to the mesh network. Or is there other way to secure the VMs and the containers without the need to connect the other ethernet port? If there is a guide or a YouTube video for a similar scenario, I would really appreciate it if someone posts it here.

Excited to get hands on with this one, the Aoostar WTR Max. Pretty cool looking NAS. Review will be posted soon!

Hi am new to the whole certification thing. So how long does it take? What hardware is needed? Any other info I need to know? Is it worth it?