There is one genuine upside to using laptops here, and that is the batteries. Each node effectively has a built-in UPS. Short ...
It’s akin to the backup-and-restore method many home labbers use to migrate virtual guests between nodes. Well, except ZFS ...
I have this one little issue with my home 3-node PVE cluster. One node is the fileserver with a large zfs pool exported via NFS to the other 2 nodes. This node also happens to be the one that boots ...