# I Was Running Redundant VMs on the Same Proxmox Host Without Realizing It

DevFeed: [I Was Running Redundant VMs on the Same Proxmox Host Without Realizing It](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/i-was-running-redundant-vms-on-the-same-proxmox-host-without-realizing-it-10493.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/09/i-was-running-redundant-vms-on-the-same-proxmox-host-without-realizing-it/>)

Author: Brandon Lee

Published: 2026-09-08T12:19:53Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Virtualization Howto](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/virtualization-howto.md>)

Topics: [Proxmox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/proxmox.md>), [Homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homelab.md>), [virtualization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/virtualization.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [home-lab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/home-lab.md>), [proxmox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proxmox.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [virtualization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtualization.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes discovering that two supposedly redundant VMs were running on the same Proxmox host. It explains how shared failure domains can make apparently resilient home-lab architectures fail together and recommends auditing workload placement across hosts and dependencies.

## Source excerpt

If you have spent a lot of time over the years building redundancy into your home lab, you probably have looked at many of the same layers that I have.... The post I Was Running Redundant VMs on the Same Proxmox Host Without Realizing It appeared first on Virtualization Howto.