Proxmox 6 (production) on Xeon E3-1245v2

[proxbob]

Hello,

I got a server with the following specs :

Processor : Intel Xeon E3-1245v2
Frequency : 3.4GHz /3.8GHz
RAM : 32GB DDR3 1333MHz
Cores/Threads : 4c/8t
Disks : Soft RAID 2x960GB SSD

For this configuration, the hosting company (soyoustart) provide a proxmox 5 template but no proxmox 6, the support told me this server can't handle proxmox 6, and I need to upgrade to a more powerful server to access a proxmox 6 template (no technical details).

I installed the proxmox 5 and upgraded it to proxmox 6 (following the wiki) , the upgrade went flawlessly

is there any problem to use proxmox 6 on this server for production (web hosting on guest LXCs) ?

pveversion : pve-manager/6.3-2/22f57405 (running kernel: 5.4.78-1-pve)

pveperf :

CPU BOGOMIPS:      54280.16
REGEX/SECOND:      2317713
HD SIZE:           19.10 GB (/dev/md1)
BUFFERED READS:    474.00 MB/sec
AVERAGE SEEK TIME: 0.05 ms
FSYNCS/SECOND:     1996.48
DNS EXT:           10.66 ms
DNS INT:           6.11 ms (ip-xxxx.xxx)

 

[showiproute]

Seriously?!

I have my very, very old former desktop computer running as an up-to-date Proxmox server.

Intel i-5 2500K
16 GB non-ECC DDR3 memory

I think the whole machine is around 10 years old.


So far Proxmox is running stable on it, haven't had any issues so far.
I am running a Ubuntu 20.04, Windows Server 2019 + Sophos XG VM on it.

 

[proxbob]

Seriously?!

Yes, the question arises as long as the hosting company does not offer a proxmox 6 template (unless it is to sell a more expensive server, which I doubt).

 

[showiproute]

I would use the current hardware setup and update to the current PVE version

 

[BobhWasatch]

I run my home lab on a Xeon D-1541 with 32 GB of RAM. Currently 5 VM and 2 CT, 1 VM being my virtual desktop. Usually a light load of course, although I do sometimes build software on the desktop VM which also exercises the NFS server. But similar size hardware to yours (more cores w/less performance per core). No problems with latest Proxmox (v6.3 at time of writing).

 

[frankar]

Yes, the question arises as long as the hosting company does not offer a proxmox 6 template (unless it is to sell a more expensive server, which I doubt).

Hello proxbob, I have your same problem.. I manually installed proxmox 6 over debian 10, all is ok for now

 

[proxbob]

Hello proxbob, I have your same problem.. I manually installed proxmox 6 over debian 10, all is ok for now

mine seems to be working good so far, I extensively tested it and nothing wrong happened, will soon use it for production purpose.

 

[ktecho]

@frankar How did you install Proxmos through Debian 10? I'm just bought a new server for one year and now they don't have any Proxmox listed in the install options...

 

[ktecho]

@frankar I think you used this, right? (I've just seen it)

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_Buster