Hard drive config for Homelab

[jaykavathe]

Drives I have - 1) NVME boot disc with proxmox 2) 250GB HDD for ISOs 3) 10 TB Drive 4) 10 TB drive 5) 2 TB drive.
Planning to start with Plex in LXC and Nextcloud in VM.

Questions -
1) I know I will use Ubuntu 20.10 for LXC. Is that the same ISO I use for VM for nextcloud?
2) How do I manage my drives? Do I create a pool/ZFS in Proxmox to pass onto VM/LXC or just pass on whole drives to VM for Nextcloud and let VM manage it?

Apologize if these are stupid questions and please share if there is a tutorial video I can read about how proxmox and VMs manage drives.

 

[Dominic]

The most important documentation resource is the Proxmox VE Administration guide. This is created from our repositories, so it always contains the most recent information.

1) Container images are not ISO images to install your VM. Please search the guide for "pveam". There you will get the Ubuntu image for your container.
For your VM, I'd suggest going to the official Ubuntu page, download their ISO and upload it to the "local" storage of your PVE host (possible in the GUI). You can then select that ISO in the VM creation wizard.

2) I'd create a storage on your Proxmox VE host and specify that when creating your guests using the VM/CT creation wizard at the top of your Proxmox VE GUI. In those wizards you can define how big you want the virtual disks of your guests (that reside on the storage that you created on your PVE host) to be.

 

[jaykavathe]

The most important documentation resource is the Proxmox VE Administration guide. This is created from our repositories, so it always contains the most recent information.

1) Container images are not ISO images to install your VM. Please search the guide for "pveam". There you will get the Ubuntu image for your container.
For your VM, I'd suggest going to the official Ubuntu page, download their ISO and upload it to the "local" storage of your PVE host (possible in the GUI). You can then select that ISO in the VM creation wizard.

2) I'd create a storage on your Proxmox VE host and specify that when creating your guests using the VM/CT creation wizard at the top of your Proxmox VE GUI. In those wizards you can define how big you want the virtual disks of your guests (that reside on the storage that you created on your PVE host) to be.

Thank you for your input. I used the method you mentioned above in #2.

I created directory in Proxmox, using whole disk at once and installed proxmox VM on it. I was able to setup and start Plex but now I am not sure how can I access files and add media to my plex while accessing proxmox server from windows?

I tried to SSH/SFTP but I dont see the file structure where Plex media library is stored.