Plex(docker) + NFS on Proxmox

[merox]

Hello everyone, I need to know what it can be the best practice for me to install Plex on my next setup:

Proxmox 2ssd zfs mirror, 2hdd zfs mirror

I have a lxc nonprivileged container where I have portainer installed to manage the dockers, should be ok to add the plex media server here too as a docker, and create a lxc container with hdd storage and install nfs server to be linked with Plex media server ?

If you guys have a better ideas, please tell me

Thank you!

 

[Dunuin]

If you use LXCs, why not use bind-mounts instead of slower NFS? I would first bind-mount a ZFS dataset from the PVE host to the portainer LXC and then use bind-mounts again to bring it from the portainer LXC to the plex docker container.

 

[merox]

If you use LXCs, why not use bind-mounts instead of slower NFS? I would first bind-mount a ZFS dataset from the PVE host to the portainer LXC and then use bind-mounts again to bring it from the portainer LXC to the plex docker container.

Ok, good to know and thank you, but I want also to put movies on that storage linked to plex from my PC too and I think NFS it s the best solution?

 

[Dunuin]

In that case I would in addition run a NFS/SMB server inside another LXC and also bind-mount the same dataset from the host to that NAS LXC.

 

[merox]

I haven't time until now to implement this scenario, but I'm not sure how to bind-mount the same /Plex directory from LXC1 to LXC2, /Plex directory (256 GB in this case) was created with container creation as mp0 and store the .raw image on a Directory on hdd_pool, but I don't understand exactly how this /Plex directory can be mounted on LXC2 too, waiting for the info, thank you!

P.S: Short q, can be the /Plex mountpoint to be mounted in one unprivileged container and in one privileged ?

 

[Dunuin]

I haven't time until now to implement this scenario, but I'm not sure how to bind-mount the same /Plex directory from LXC1 to LXC2, /Plex directory (256 GB in this case) was created with container creation as mp0 and store the .raw image on a Directory on hdd_pool, but I don't understand exactly how this /Plex directory can be mounted on LXC2 too, waiting for the info, thank you!

You don't mount virtual disks/raw images to the LXCs. You directly bind-mount a folder from your host to your LXCs by editing the LXCs config file in the /etc/pve/lxc folder adding a line like mp0: /your/folder/on/host/Plex,mp=/target/folder/in/lxc/Plex.

P.S: Short q, can be the /Plex mountpoint to be mounted in one unprivileged container and in one privileged ?

Should work. But for the unprivileged one you need to do the manual user remapping.

 

[merox]

You don't mount virtual disks/raw images to the LXCs. You directly bind-mount a folder from your host to your LXCs by editing the LXCs config file in the /etc/pve/lxc folder adding a line like mp0: /your/folder/on/host/Plex,mp=/target/folder/in/lxc/Plex.

Ok, so can I create the folder from CLI in the hddpool and then to bind mount this location to the target containers ?

 

[Dunuin]

Ok, so can I create the folder from CLI in the hddpool and then to bind mount this location to the target containers ?

Jup. Also make sure you create the empty folder as a mountpoint in the LXC.

 

[triks]

pct set 100 -mp0 /mnt/pve/,mp=/nas

the above command is to be run on the HOST
100 is the container ID on the HOST
/mnt/pve is where your mounts are on HOST
/nas is the name of the mount in container 100 (should have made it maybe /mnt/nas)