Hello, this is my first post to the proxmox official community forum.
I am working on a build to achieve the following:
1) 8 windows VMs with some dedicated graphics to run some lightweight windows games and store data from those games in a PostgreSQL database
2) 1 said PostgreSQL database
3) 1 plex server
After some feedback from reddit, here is the build I am at (My budget is 2,5000-6,000)
Components:
I am working on a build to achieve the following:
1) 8 windows VMs with some dedicated graphics to run some lightweight windows games and store data from those games in a PostgreSQL database
2) 1 said PostgreSQL database
3) 1 plex server
After some feedback from reddit, here is the build I am at (My budget is 2,5000-6,000)
Components:
- CPU: AMD EPYC 9124 (16C/32T) - $1,000
- Motherboard: Supermicro H13SSL-N - $1,000
- RAM: 128GB DDR5 4800MHz (4x32GB) - $600
- Boot Drive: 2x 512GB Samsung 990 PRO NVMe (RAID1) - $200
- PostgreSQL Drive: 1TB Samsung 990 PRO NVMe (RAID1) - $260
- VM Storage: 2x 2TB Samsung 990 PRO NVMe (RAID1) - $600
- Plex Storage: 4x 8TB Seagate IronWolf Pro (RAID5, 24TB) - $800
- GPU: 2x NVIDIA RTX 2070 Super 8GB (vGPU) - $700
- Power Supply: Corsair RM1000x 1000W - $180
- Case: Fractal Design Define 7 - $180
- Cooling: Noctua NH-U12S TR4-SP3 + 2x Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM fans - $140
- Total Hardware Cost: $4,864
- Windows 11 VMs: 8 VMs, 2 vCPUs each, 8GB RAM each (16 vCPUs, 64GB total)
- PostgreSQL VM: 1 VM, 4 vCPUs, 24GB RAM (4 vCPUs, 24GB total)
- Plex VM: 1 VM, 4 vCPUs, 24GB RAM (4 vCPUs, 24GB total)
- Total: 24 vCPUs (0.75x oversubscription), 112GB RAM, 16GB reserved for Proxmox/ZFS ARC
- vGPU: 2GB per Windows VM (16GB total VRAM from 2 GPUs), 4GB partition for Plex
- Does this setup look solid for my workload, especially with vGPU and storage?
- Any last tweaks before I pull the trigger?