Hey guys, I just updated the BIOS and Proxmox to the latest version for each, and wanted to tackle one more issue. I've been hosting a couple network drives on my Proxmox host, basically just a network directory for music and one for torrents. I play music SOMETIMES from this directory, but usually it's just for storage. Inside the torrent directory, I store movies sometimes for my parents, and then set up MiniDLNA to point to that (ALL ON THE HOST :/). That means sometimes they will be streaming a movie across the network with their TV (I decided against Plex for my simple case, I showed my mom how to access the file directly on her TV).
I wanted to move this "service" of serving files + miniDLNA sharing to a container. This is where I have been seeking help. On the host I used mdadm to use a couple SSDs for a RAID1 array. Currently /mnt/RAID/Torrents and /mnt/RAID/Music are the two directories I'd like to share. I figured a bind mount to a container should work just fine with that.
The main concern I have is: How do you guys go about figuring out how many CPUs to allocate, RAM, and disk space for a task like this? I'm not a complete noob to computers by any means and understand the roles of each, but I'm newer when it comes to virtualization and stuff like Proxmox. I can't imagine the disk space needs to be any bigger than eight gigabytes or whatever just to run the Ubuntu template. RAM and CPU are different, I'm at a loss. For the most part, the container will be idle just sharing the directories, but from time to time my parents will stream a movie directly from the shared directory, and I may stream music via mpd at times.
I appreciate any input, help, suggestions, or guidance. I'm still somewhat of a noob when it comes to Linux sysadmin stuff, although I've improved a lot over the years, questions like this still leave me a bit lost.
I wanted to move this "service" of serving files + miniDLNA sharing to a container. This is where I have been seeking help. On the host I used mdadm to use a couple SSDs for a RAID1 array. Currently /mnt/RAID/Torrents and /mnt/RAID/Music are the two directories I'd like to share. I figured a bind mount to a container should work just fine with that.
The main concern I have is: How do you guys go about figuring out how many CPUs to allocate, RAM, and disk space for a task like this? I'm not a complete noob to computers by any means and understand the roles of each, but I'm newer when it comes to virtualization and stuff like Proxmox. I can't imagine the disk space needs to be any bigger than eight gigabytes or whatever just to run the Ubuntu template. RAM and CPU are different, I'm at a loss. For the most part, the container will be idle just sharing the directories, but from time to time my parents will stream a movie directly from the shared directory, and I may stream music via mpd at times.
I appreciate any input, help, suggestions, or guidance. I'm still somewhat of a noob when it comes to Linux sysadmin stuff, although I've improved a lot over the years, questions like this still leave me a bit lost.
