Budgetary concerns always play a role in decision making, no matter what kind of network environment we are dealing with. The truth is that a setup can be adaptable to just about any budget with some clever and creative planning. Administrators often need to work with very small IT budgets. Hopefully, this chapter will help you to find that missing thread to connect a budget with proper hardware components. By using commodity equipment over complete brand servers, we can easily set up a full Proxmox cluster on a very lean budget. Proxmox works very well on quality commodity hardware components.