Hello all,
This is my first post and will be the first time I'll be diving (more like crashing) into the Proxmox rabbit hole. I've little knowledge of Proxmox (other than knowing it's a Hypervisor O/S, and ingesting YouTube videos), and little knowledge of Ubuntu/Linux in general. Even with little to no experience I am in no means inept to learning new things. I'm here to learn while crashing and burning. It's nice to meet you all, please take care of me, and thanks in advance.
My current setup is all over the place and i'm looking to consolidate all if not most of it into Proxmox (I'm not looking to repurpose any of the NUCs for example, utilizing them for any type of cluster or HA).
2x Intel NUCs (one windows 11, one Unbuntu LTS) both hosting PMS
1x Intel NUC running Hyper-V core (pfsense NAT for VPN, Sonarr, SABNZBd, Deluged, Radarr, Lidarr, Pi-hole)
4xSynology 8bay NAS each maxed out with 5tb, 14tb, 16tb, and 18tb drives respectively (hosting a Pi-hole and HomeAssistant VM)
My current network setup:
All Ubiquiti. UDM Pro SE, 24 port 10gbe switch, 24 port 2.5gbe switch, Aggregation switch, etc. I think you guys got the idea.
Main use case:
Media Server (Plex Media Server want to run two instances for shared library seperation, *'r apps, tdarr, etc.)
Applications can be VMs or containers. I really don't know how to use containers. The only experience I have with these is with Synology and ditched the idea because it wasn't any fun trying to figure out how to segregate the Docker bridge network so i could pass it thru a vlan on the main network. I do have experience using Hyper-V Core so i'm not that ignorant when it comes to Virtual Machines.
Purposed Hardware: (more money than sense)
CPU: Intel 14900K
Motherboard: Asus W680 Pro-ACE (no IPMI, as I tried the IPMI version and got a dud board the first time)
Memory: 128gb ECC Memory (currently on 6th pass of Memtest86+)
Network: 2x10gbe NIC, 2x2.5gbe NIC, (plus the onboard 2x2.5gbe)
Graphics: Intel Arc A750 (want to add an additional card but deciding what single slot is good)
Drives: 4x Samsung 870 EVO 1TB, 2x Intel D3-S4620 480GB, 2x Samsung 870 EVO 250GB, 2x Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, 1x Samsung Pro 4TB
Misc Additional Hardware: (plan to virtualize some sort of NAS O/S, but haven't decided which one yet)
LSI 9211-8i P20 HBA
Seagate Exos x22 20TB (have 3 so far)
A little more hardware:
I already have 4xSynology NAS that host all the data. So no major storage needed on the Proxmox machine itself besides trying to virtualize a NAS on it. Plan is to maybe install PBS and attach network storage to Proxmox for backup.
***So with the above hardware and information. How would the Proxmox guru's approach this. For example, how would you configure the drives (ZFS, Raid, caching (if even required), segregating the logs, etc). Where would you put the VM storage, where would you install the Proxmox O/S.
I know some of the information above is redundant but my brain is idling at 75mph at the moment. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
****The drive configuration is what's got me thinking the most. But this is what i'm thinking.
Proxmox O/S boot: 2x Samsung 870 EVO 250gb ZFS Mirror
Main VMs PMS: 2x Samsung 990 Pro 2TB ZFS Mirror
Additional VMs: 4x Samsung 970 EVO 1TB ZFS Raid10
ZIL/SLOG Offload: 2x Intel D3-S4620 480GB ZFS Mirror
Not sure yet: 1x Samsung 990 Pro 4TB
Yay/Nay or am I just lost in the sauce.
This is my first post and will be the first time I'll be diving (more like crashing) into the Proxmox rabbit hole. I've little knowledge of Proxmox (other than knowing it's a Hypervisor O/S, and ingesting YouTube videos), and little knowledge of Ubuntu/Linux in general. Even with little to no experience I am in no means inept to learning new things. I'm here to learn while crashing and burning. It's nice to meet you all, please take care of me, and thanks in advance.
My current setup is all over the place and i'm looking to consolidate all if not most of it into Proxmox (I'm not looking to repurpose any of the NUCs for example, utilizing them for any type of cluster or HA).
2x Intel NUCs (one windows 11, one Unbuntu LTS) both hosting PMS
1x Intel NUC running Hyper-V core (pfsense NAT for VPN, Sonarr, SABNZBd, Deluged, Radarr, Lidarr, Pi-hole)
4xSynology 8bay NAS each maxed out with 5tb, 14tb, 16tb, and 18tb drives respectively (hosting a Pi-hole and HomeAssistant VM)
My current network setup:
All Ubiquiti. UDM Pro SE, 24 port 10gbe switch, 24 port 2.5gbe switch, Aggregation switch, etc. I think you guys got the idea.
Main use case:
Media Server (Plex Media Server want to run two instances for shared library seperation, *'r apps, tdarr, etc.)
Applications can be VMs or containers. I really don't know how to use containers. The only experience I have with these is with Synology and ditched the idea because it wasn't any fun trying to figure out how to segregate the Docker bridge network so i could pass it thru a vlan on the main network. I do have experience using Hyper-V Core so i'm not that ignorant when it comes to Virtual Machines.
Purposed Hardware: (more money than sense)
CPU: Intel 14900K
Motherboard: Asus W680 Pro-ACE (no IPMI, as I tried the IPMI version and got a dud board the first time)
Memory: 128gb ECC Memory (currently on 6th pass of Memtest86+)
Network: 2x10gbe NIC, 2x2.5gbe NIC, (plus the onboard 2x2.5gbe)
Graphics: Intel Arc A750 (want to add an additional card but deciding what single slot is good)
Drives: 4x Samsung 870 EVO 1TB, 2x Intel D3-S4620 480GB, 2x Samsung 870 EVO 250GB, 2x Samsung 990 Pro 2TB, 1x Samsung Pro 4TB
Misc Additional Hardware: (plan to virtualize some sort of NAS O/S, but haven't decided which one yet)
LSI 9211-8i P20 HBA
Seagate Exos x22 20TB (have 3 so far)
A little more hardware:
I already have 4xSynology NAS that host all the data. So no major storage needed on the Proxmox machine itself besides trying to virtualize a NAS on it. Plan is to maybe install PBS and attach network storage to Proxmox for backup.
***So with the above hardware and information. How would the Proxmox guru's approach this. For example, how would you configure the drives (ZFS, Raid, caching (if even required), segregating the logs, etc). Where would you put the VM storage, where would you install the Proxmox O/S.
I know some of the information above is redundant but my brain is idling at 75mph at the moment. Any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
****The drive configuration is what's got me thinking the most. But this is what i'm thinking.
Proxmox O/S boot: 2x Samsung 870 EVO 250gb ZFS Mirror
Main VMs PMS: 2x Samsung 990 Pro 2TB ZFS Mirror
Additional VMs: 4x Samsung 970 EVO 1TB ZFS Raid10
ZIL/SLOG Offload: 2x Intel D3-S4620 480GB ZFS Mirror
Not sure yet: 1x Samsung 990 Pro 4TB
Yay/Nay or am I just lost in the sauce.
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