Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

The Groups menu

This menu is used to create and manage different groups of Proxmox for HA. The most relevant use of groups is for software solutions or infrastructure VMs that should always be running together for continuous functionality in the event of a failure: a domain controller, file server, and so on. We can create multiple groups through this menu. A VM assigned to a particular group will only be moved within the member nodes in that group. For example, if we have six nodes, out of which three nodes have enough resources to run the database virtual server and the other three nodes to run virtual desktops or VDI solutions, we can create two groups for which the database virtual servers will only be moved within the nodes that we have ...