Home NAS dilema

sotnas

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Hi!

I want to mount a NAS for private cloud, with photos and documents. I'm not going to have movies, music, or videos that take up a lot. Only the photos and videos of the mobile to stop depending on icloud, dropbox and others, and documents, some downloads programs, garmin maps, etc ..
I will also move 3 VMs that I have on my pc locally, they will not always be on (an Ubuntu that I use to compile openwrt, and some windows applications when there is no application on the mac os x).

The Hardware is:
- e5-2630l v3 (8 cores, 16 Threats)
- 16 GB RAM
- 1 SDD consumer 500 GB (samsung Evo 850)
- 2 x 4 TB WD Red plus.
- MB (4 x SATA 3.0 + 1 NMVE PCIE)

Now I want to buy 1 NMVE of 500 GB (so as not to spend all the SATA) and have:
1 zpool mirror for SO + VMs / CTs (1 NMVE + 1 SSD)
1 zpool mirror for data and backups of VMs / CTs (2 x 4 TB HDD)

The issue is that the zfs sucks a lot of RAM, and managing two pools of zfs I don't know what it is ... And I am considering setting up the following scenarios:

1) NAS in PVE
* zpool mirror SO + VMs / CTs
* zpool mirror for data and snapshots.
1 CT samba
1 CT Nextcloud
1 CT Duplicaty (backups in the cloud, USB, etc ...)
1 CT docker (future use)
Various VMs

2) NAS in OpenMediaVault
* zpool mirror SO + VMs / CTs
* zpool mirror data
1 VM OMV:
- LVM on ext4 for data and snapshots.
- docker for nextcloud and duplicaty
1 CT docker (future use)
Various VMs

3) NAS in OpenMediaVault
* zpool mirror SO + VMs / CTs
1 VM OMV:
- Passthrouht of the 2 x 4 TB. RAID 1 on btrfs
- docker for nextcloud and duplicaty
1 CT docker (future use)
Various VMs

Scenarios 1 and 3 (2 is similar to 3) I have already moved them on a vmware fusion and they work. And that is where I have seen that scenario 1, despite being more efficient at the solution level, consumed a lot of memory of the MV that I have mounted, and that 3 apart from that with OMV it is easier to implement because I do not see so much difference performance.

I can afford buy more ram , PCI-E LSI card or another HDD 4 TB (for RAID 5)

Sorry for my English
Regards
 
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