Getting small machines to create a Proxmox cluster

Table of contents

1. Intro
2. The Machines
   1. Small Form Factor
   2. Tiny 1L

Intro

My first Thinkcenter was bought to replace my old “Shed Server” an old HP 3ghz pentium 4 pc with 1gb of ram that I rescued from e-waste from work.

I upgraded it with a 320GB Western digital raptor drive and installed a student edition of windows server 2008 to run my website via IIS before I used to host it on GitHub Pages.

It was affectionately called the “Shed Server” as it was installed in my garden shed and connected to the internet via WiFi in my flat whilst I was in University.

It was likely due to this, why it eventually went to Silicon Heaven, probably due to the extreme changes in temperature, humidity or by being a home to many a spider.

The replacement for "Shed Server" was named "Lenny" (just because it is a Lenovo) and going forward my Proxmox cluster name of Thinkcenter Tinys has inherited the Monika.

The Machines

Small Form Factor

Tiny 1L

Router

Proxmox Cluster

Desktops