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I'm looking at custom building a 1U server designed for colocation, where it won't be serviced regularly. My goal is a low power consumption platform (ie. AMD EPYC or similar) with a 20TB+ storage system that removes most of the challenges of spinning HDD failure rates. I was thinking SSDs...

Have you measured power consumption on it?

Yep, that would work. But I got my existing Minisforum machine going. However the thing that is intriguing here is the low power consumption. I'm thinking of putting a cluster of these boxes together, so I might just give that one a try as well. Thanks for the input.

So just an update to this thread.... Per uDoB's suggestion, I decided to take the plunge and I installed 7.3 VE on it. The amazing thing is that it worked out of the box. NICs recognized immediately, DHCP grabbed an IP just fine and following install, reboots perfectly. I guess this was a...

Thank you. That's interesting. I tried 7.1 on the HX90, and it didn't work with the NICs. But your experience with 7.2 might be that they did something in the driver support that now works. I'll give my rig another try with 7.2 and see if that works. Thanks for the feedback.

Thank you. Yes, that is *kinda* what I want. I have purchased the Minisforum HX90, but it took an act of god to get PM7 to work on it, and the NICs don't get recognized correctly on boot up each time, so I have to manually drop the network and restart it after boot to force the NICs to work...

I specifically asked for a machine recommendation, not a strategy. I understand your point, but I am hoping someone has already gone down this path and been successful with a specific make/modem of Mini PC. The older machines don't have the power consumption or performance specs for what I need.

Does anyone have a recommendation for an AMD Ryzen based Mini PC that is compatible for Proxmox 6 or 7? I need something expandable to 64GB memory or more, 2TB+ of Nvme storage, etc. The key thing is that I need it to consume < 100 watts of power. I have tried a couple of them, and results...

Having some issues with the screen not working during installation on Dell R610 server. I've tried this with 4 different monitors at our data center, but was successful with Dell R630. It appears that the screen dimensions during installation (after the initial Proxmox installation choice...

Here's some basic ref data for my installation: /etc/network/interfaces. on the host source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eno1 iface eno1 inet manual iface enx00249b68ea1d inet dhcp auto vmbr0 iface vmbr0 inet static address 192.168.175.38/24...

So received a new Minisforum HX90 box with 4TB disk, 64GB memory, Ryzen, etc. and attempted to install PM 7.1 on it. Fail. For some reason, it would not detect the inbuilt 2.5Gb/s NIC, so I tried with a USB connected Ethernet adapter and it kinda worked. But then discovered that I could...

I got two of my PVE boxes fixed, but I left ZFS and went back to hardware RAID cards (Dell H700s), and all problems went away immediately. Also I did notice a massive improvement based on the types of HDDs being used - SAS 15K drives with ZFS was bearable, although not optimal. The same drive...

That's exactly what it was. I thought it was the greylisting in PMG, even though I had SMTP whitelisted the domains. I thought that the whitelisting wasn't working. Of course it was working. The problem was that the receiving mail server wanted to do redundant things like SPF checking...

Actually I think I have resolved the issue. It was not a problem on the PMG side - after I managed to find the live logs and ran it alongside the live logs of our mail server (tail -f /var/log/mail.log), I could see in real time the flow, and that showed me that PMG is super fast at processing...

I'm not exactly sure what my expectations should be here, but I have setup a PMG in front of our mail server, and all is working fine for bi-direction integration. The one thing that caught me off guard was the time delay that was occurring between receiving a legitimate email from an external...