Hello everyone! I am a long time Windows user and new to HVEs and VMs and Linux.
Have an Unraid server at home on an old machine with few drives. I use this existing setup as NAS mainly for storing home media and jellyfin etc all from GUI. I wanted to add OpenWrt or Opnsens on my network and was looking for a suitable thin client older and used machines but during this quest of mine somehow got introduced to Proxmox. Long story, short, I am now very much interested.
An opportunity just arrived and someone I know is selling their HP z820 workstation with 2x500 gb SSDs drives, dual 12 core Xeon E5-2697 v2 processors and 64 Gb ram for very cheap. This machine comes with two stock 1G network interfaces and additionally has a dual port SFP+ 10gbe network card as well. I will add two 2TB WD NAS drives for additional storage once I buy the server.
I was wondering if guys with more knowledge could guide me on some things.
Have an Unraid server at home on an old machine with few drives. I use this existing setup as NAS mainly for storing home media and jellyfin etc all from GUI. I wanted to add OpenWrt or Opnsens on my network and was looking for a suitable thin client older and used machines but during this quest of mine somehow got introduced to Proxmox. Long story, short, I am now very much interested.
An opportunity just arrived and someone I know is selling their HP z820 workstation with 2x500 gb SSDs drives, dual 12 core Xeon E5-2697 v2 processors and 64 Gb ram for very cheap. This machine comes with two stock 1G network interfaces and additionally has a dual port SFP+ 10gbe network card as well. I will add two 2TB WD NAS drives for additional storage once I buy the server.
I was wondering if guys with more knowledge could guide me on some things.
- First thing first, is this hardware sufficient to run 2 different flavors of Ubuntu desktops, one full time Ubuntu server VM, openwrt (VM or LXC or docker, haven’t figured out this part yet)
- What I am thinking is to run arr stack of applications by making Proxmox my main download server, a seedbox and perhaps an email server on this Ubuntu Server VM. I also want to run openwrt but haven’t figured out how, like as a VM, docker or LXC.
- I lack Linux, Command line skills so should I go for Ubuntu Desktop instead. I mean does that even make sense or not.
- My main goal is to transfer data for media storage and may be backups of VMs, templates and snapshots from Proxmox to my NAS Unraid over 10 Gbe P2P DAC connection (either manually or on auto) I would like to know what would be the proper way to do this ? Through Proxmox GUI interface or from within the VM ?
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