System requirements, is my machine up to it?

[BenHippynet]

Hi,

I have a machine that is currently running Proxmox v2.3. Obviously it should have had Proxmox upgraded a long time ago and now I think the safest way to to do a full fresh install of Proxmox up to the latest version, but I'm not sure if the hardware is up to the latest version as it's quite an old machine. Could anybody confirm if the latest version of Proxmox would run?

Intel Xeon X3330
8Gb RAM
Adaptec Series 6 RAID card

 

[fireon]

I can't really answer this. But normaly yes, why not. Sometimes there were some problems with kvm and older cpu's. This time they are gone. Installed PVE5 on an old HP Gen5 without problems. But from experience i can say you that lvm-thin and old hardware is not a good idea, it can be very slow. So better use normal LVM or/and qcow2 on it.

If it possible for you test it. Build some other harddrives and do an testinstall.

 

[LnxBil]

You should stuff in more RAM to have more fun. It is really cheap if you buy it used.

Another problem is to tackle spectre and meltdown with old CPUs. There is no microcode update available for older than old generations (your X3330 is almost 10 years old). So the question is if and when you'll get microcode updates.