New to proxmox some questions, before I install on my OVHcloud dedicated server.

alphaavionics

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I've done some asking around, and decided final, to install proxmox. However I have a few questions.

I'd thought to make a single thread to consolidate my answers, rather than making new ones when they come up.

  1. Should I use the OVH template? 1.5 I had weird issues with partitioning both NVME drives in raid 1 where it gave me the error "no disk space unused" I've looked and couldn't find much on how to fix that. Do I just install on one disk partition? I've also noticed root (or debian) is only 20gb when guides I watch have 100+gb on their root. If I want to have more space on root/debian, would I customize the partition "/" and raise it?
  2. Or Should I use IPMI or bring your own image (Not sure how to get that working if someone can help out, with it asking for a hash sum, and file type with bring own image on ovhcloud)
  3. If I do install via IPMI/ISO, what do I set as a FQDN hostname? When I installed a template just to test out the web gui connected to a url like https://n******.ip-**-**-**.us/, and that seems to appear beneath my servers dedis name name. Do I use that? Does it matter what I pick as a hostname, could I just leave it at pve.example.local?
  4. I hope this one doesn't sound silly, but could I host my linux servers on the debian proxmox installed, or should I just make virtual containers?
 

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