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Seems like a little, but powerful piece of hardware with a good single thread performance - I don't know it, but I like it! :D We just built a three node PVE/Ceph cluster based on AMD EPYC 7351 CPUs - no trouble so far. :) Do you have any further questions?

Sounds like a very solid choice, congrats! If you're sure that about 900 GB of storage would be enough than go with it - why not? :) And even if you need more in three or four years: Backing up the VMs, replacing the SSDs with larger ones, setting up new ZFS based storage and finally restoring...

done :)

Hey Reuven, unfortunately we don't use lvm(-thin), so I have no clue what could be wrong in your case. Maybe aaron has an idea? Good luck and greets Stephan

Our "calculation" goes like this: Thanks to the proxmox team we get an enterprise grade virtualization platform and safe a lot of money compared to the "big players". And a part of this savings we spent in nice (and enterprise grade) hardware. :)

Yes, this looks good. Now you could bring your system up-to-date with apt dist-upgrade But as aaron mentioned: Before upgrading I would try to figure out what's wrong with /dev/sde and how this could affect your system.

It's a little bit unusual, but not necessarily wrong. Aaron, do you think it's safe to replace "stretch" with "buster" in the proxmox repo line and do an upgrade? Reuven, did you install this system initially? To me it seems that it was "buster" once and was replaced with "stretch" later...

And relating to the choice of HDDs/SSDs: When you go through this forum you will finally realize consensus: When you do virtualization for business purposes, buy enterprise grade hardware and have a good backup strategy - end of story. :)

If you're talking about IPMI: It comes with most of Super Micro's server mainboards, and most of the functionality is free. As far as I can see, features like BIOS firmware upgrade or centralized management for a lot of servers require a kind of paid subscription.

:-D YMMD! Yes, Microsofts "datacenter licensing" is painful - a little bit less when you go shopping here. But that's really offtopic now, sorry! :)

I would also advice against HPE. We had it for years, and in my opinion it was not better than "middle-class" server hardware, just more expensive. And as far as I remember: For getting HPE firmware updates you need to have a valid support contract. Since a few years we use Super Micro hardware...

Hey, "stretch" looks wrong, should be "buster", as in your other repos. But I'm wonderung how you can have while in the Proxmox stretch repo 5.4-8 is the latest. Are you sure there is no file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/? Greets Stephan

ok, so let's try to estimate the needed resources for your VMs: How much RAM? How much disk space? How many CPU cores? Is "single core performance" important for your applications? ...and... maximum budget? ;)

Yes, www.proxmox.com seems to be down. You can also download the latest Proxmox ISO from here. The VirtIO driver ISO for Windows you can get here - we normally use "stable", not "latest". If you need further assistance in planning and installing PVE, just ask! :) Greets Stephan

Hi, What's the maximum depth the server can have? Greets Stephan

Hey, is your plan to get one physical machine with local storage, or do you want to have some kind of fault tolerance, replication, HA, whatsoever? Many greets Stephan

Hey, in our PVE environment we installed a bunch of Windows Server 2012 R2 so far - nothing special about it. We use the standard Windows Server ISO. For disks and network interfaces we choose paravirtualized VirtIO devices. Therefor you have to give the VirtIO driver ISO to the VM during the...

Update: Proxmox Backup is able to do what we want: You can go to VM -> Hardware -> Hard Disk -> Edit -> Advanced -> No Backup. :) Greets Stephan

or in fewer words: I would love to do weekly backups of the system disks of all VMs (snapshot, LZO compressed, to an NFS share). High level of consistency (as Proxmox backup does via qemu guest agent) would be fine, but I can live without it, too. Can vzdump do this? Can cv4pve-barc do this (and...

Hi there, we just started with our three node PVE/Ceph cluster - so far so good. Now I'm looking for the best way for "disaster recovery style" backups of our Windows and Linux VMs. At the moment we do backups like this: For file based backups we use Bareos which works well. For (weekly)...