So...I've hosed and formatted my home server setup about 6 times since I started my home-lock down courtesy of the Dos Equis virus two weeks ago. Frankly, it's driving my wife nutso. Upgraded rig to i5 Intel 2.9 with 32gb DDR4 and about 8 TB on disk and 512 SSD spread between 6 drives. I started bare mental OMV, formatted it twice due to configuration screw-ups. Then I moved to Proxmox bare metal for better VM management since Cockpit was busted for me in OMV 5. Re-formatted Proxmox 3 times for both configuration, both for testing and bad Linux root commands and configs. I feel like my brain has been plugged into the Matrix at the rate I'm researching stuff, but I digress.
I have settled on Proxmox as bare metal for certain. I am becoming familiar with LXC containers, as they have very low overhead. My questions surround disk and file management. I am wresting with a few questions at this point:
Then again, I almost hosed one of my Proxmox deployments simply because I wanted to change the node name from "server" to "Server1". I'll never get those 4 hours back. But boy did i learn so much! Sorry for the rambling and thank you in advance for sharing your viewpoints. Stay safe!!!
I have settled on Proxmox as bare metal for certain. I am becoming familiar with LXC containers, as they have very low overhead. My questions surround disk and file management. I am wresting with a few questions at this point:
- Is there truly an effective way to let OMV manage non-OS (media and files storage) physical disks without HD pass-through? I am under the impression that only one system can manage disks at any given moment, and I have three to potentially pass through (Proxmox or OMV). I also though that Proxmox backup and monitoring acitviites are hampered when doing pass-through. Can you pass through multiple disks to one VM/LXC?
- Is there still a lot of value using OMV if disk management is off the table? Does OMV really do it any better than Proxmox at this point?
- ZFS vs EXT4. I keep thinking KISS (keep it simple stupid). ZFS has CPU and significant RAM overhead. I think i'm good on ram, but I keep reading about nightmares for data restoration and recovery. But then i hear all about performance and data integrity potential. But on 8TB, is it worth it? I plan on backing up to an external drive, probably just the os for snapshot and storage drives as file backups. Is ZFS really worth it? Are there implication if I decide to move forward with OMV? I will be file sharing between Linux and Windows systems, btw.
- Is there an equivalent to OMV (GUI preferably) that works more natively with Proxmox, at least in regards to file/shares/backup management? I have Turnkey Fileserver LXC installed. It's ugly, not terribly intuitive, but with a bit of dedication and pain, it looks to get the job done in regards to file shares/permissioning management via Samba. Any opinions?
- Docker, LXC, or VM for Plex instance? All three exist at this juncture.
Then again, I almost hosed one of my Proxmox deployments simply because I wanted to change the node name from "server" to "Server1". I'll never get those 4 hours back. But boy did i learn so much! Sorry for the rambling and thank you in advance for sharing your viewpoints. Stay safe!!!
