What's your Idle Power Consumption?

[thomas-hn]

Hello,

I'm struggling with the selection of my Proxmox hardware, especially the mainboard and CPU. Usually my VMs and containers will idle most of the time and it is really hard to find information about the idle / low load power consumptions of the systems.
Therefore, could you please post the idle / low load power consumptions of your setups, together with the used hardware parts, and maybe what is running on your machine?
I'm mainly interested in lower power setups with a power consumption < 100 watts.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Thomas

 

[thomas-hn]

Is there really noone with some power consumption data?

 

[itNGO]

Hello,

I'm struggling with the selection of my Proxmox hardware, especially the mainboard and CPU. Usually my VMs and containers will idle most of the time and it is really hard to find information about the idle / low load power consumptions of the systems.
Therefore, could you please post the idle / low load power consumptions of your setups, together with the used hardware parts, and maybe what is running on your machine?
I'm mainly interested in lower power setups with a power consumption < 100 watts.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Thomas

Well we had some small single PSU-Server running some 45watt Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1260L v5 @ 2.90GHz and with just 64GB and 4 SSDs which consumed about 50 to 70 watts during normal daily average usage as HyperV-Server. They where from SuperMicro and are even today reasonable fast considering that they are only Quad-Cores....

 

[peter247]

Hello,

I'm struggling with the selection of my Proxmox hardware, especially the mainboard and CPU. Usually my VMs and containers will idle most of the time and it is really hard to find information about the idle / low load power consumptions of the systems.
Therefore, could you please post the idle / low load power consumptions of your setups, together with the used hardware parts, and maybe what is running on your machine?
I'm mainly interested in lower power setups with a power consumption < 100 watts.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Thomas

a Deskmini x300 with a Ryzen 5700g 8 core , 64 gb ram , 1 x 4 tb ssd , 1 x 1 tb ssd , 1 x 2tb nvme , 1 x 8tb backup drive .
( the power boost switched off in bios , all core 4.8ghz max)
VM1 = Emby server , utorrent server
VM2 = Home assistant + it's own docker apps
VM3 = docker running pi-hole , yachi , ntopng , Heimdall
VM4 = Pfsense
And on the host it's self frigate with 3 cameras and object detection, and mpd .
With all the above in idle state ( 24 hour a day ) eg , not watching my media or downloading a torrent , but recording 3 screams 25-30 watts from the plug.
That is about 15gb of ram and between 4 - 10% cpu and the biggest pull on the cpu is frigate , which goes from 10% to 4% cpu at night because all the camera go from full colour to ir b/w .

I have other VMs windows 10 / 11 and linux , but I wouldn't call them at idle.

 

[LnxBil]

Mini ITX ASRock J4205-ITX (Pico-PSU), 16 GB-RAM, 2x Samsung PM863 240 GB and 9-11 Watt in IDLE. There are no VMs, just about 10 LX(C) containers including Docker on Hypervisor, Docker in Container, DNS, multiple VPNs, Fileserver, Zigbee2MQTT and Homeassistant.

 

[Dunuin]

230W right now with 16 VMs & 3 LXC idleing:

Hypervisor (Proxmox):
Case: 1x Inter-Tech 4U-4088-S
Mainboard: 1x Supermicro X10SRM-F
CPU: 1x Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 (16 cores, 2.1-3 GHz)
RAM: 4x 16GB DDR4 2400 ECC (Samsung M393A2K40BB1-CRC)
Boot-Pool: 2x 100GB SSDs as mdraid mirror (Intel S3700 100GB)
VM-Pool1: 5x 200GB SSDs as raidz1 (5x Intel S3710)
VM-Pool2: 1x 200GB SSD as LVM-thin (Intel S3710)
HDD-Pool: 2x 3TB HDDs as ZFS mirror (Seagate ST3000DM001)
GPU: Geforce GT710
NIC (storage backend): Mellanox Connect-X3 (MCX311A-XCAT)
NIC (frontend): Intel i350-T4
PSU: Supermicro 900W 80+ gold
Heatsink: 92mm tower cooler (SNK-P0050AP4)

MainNAS (FreeNAS):
Case: 1x Inter-Tech 4U-4088-S
Mainboard: 1x Supermicro X10SLL-F
CPU: 1x Intel Xeon E3-1230v3 (4 core, 3.3-3.7 GHz)
RAM: 4x 8GB DDR3 ECC
Boot-Pool: 2x 120GB SSDs as ZFS mirror
SSD-Pool: 3x 400GB SSDs as raidz1 (3x Intel S3710 400GB)
HDD-Pool: 4x 8TB HDDs as raidz1 (WD White) + 2x 200GB SSDs (Intel S3700)
NIC (storage backend): Mellanox Connect-X3 (MCX311A-XCAT)
HBA: 2x PERC H310 (flashed to LSI 9211-8i IT-Mode)
PSU: BeQuiet 300W
Heatsink: 92mm tower cooler (be Quiet)

Switches:
1x HP Aruba Instant On 1930 (JL682A)

Router:
2x D-Link DIR-860L (Ver. B1 mit OpenWRT 19.07)
1x Fritzbox 7560
1x TP-Link WDR4900 (Ver. 1.3 mit OpenWRT)

UPS:
1x Bluewalker Powerwalker VI 800 STL