In the community forums there was a nice little tip that you can run Replication Factor 2 on a single node cluster running Community Edition. Off course I needed to test this out. I installed CE on a VM as described here. I only changed the disks to the following: 2x 250GB for CVM en 2x 500GB for data (128GB is for AHV/Boot):
![](https://www.jeroentielen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ce_rf2.jpg)
During installation these are my settings:
![](https://www.jeroentielen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ce_rf2_setup.jpg)
After installation is finished make a new cluster with the following command: cluster -s 10.0.0.81 –redundancy_factor=2 create
![](https://www.jeroentielen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ce_rf2_create.jpg)
When the cluster is created and started, login into Prism Element and have a look at the storage containers:
![](https://www.jeroentielen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/rf2-1-1024x493.jpg)
That is pretty cool.