Your opinion on a hardware configuration

[fabienfs]

Hello,

I would like to make a Proxmox server to host 4 Windows 10 VMs for not very demanding applications.
These would be VMs with 8GB of RAM. What do you think of the following configuration?

Supermicro MBD-X12STW-TF
CPU : Intel Xeon E-2388G - 8 Core - 16 Threads - 3.2Ghz - 5.1Ghz Turbo - 95W - 16MB Cache
RAM : 64GB (2X 32GB) DDR4 3200Mhz ECC
NVME for OS : 2X Samsung PM9A1- 256GB NVME M.2 (RAID1)
SSD for data : 4X Samsung Enterprise PM883 2TB

That would leave 32GB of RAM for Proxmox and ZFS.

Does this configuration seem good to you, especially for the CPU ?

Thanks !

 

[justinclift]

Unless it's for some special reason, you don't really need to separate out the OS and data drives.

During installation you can tell Proxmox to use all of the drives (zfs raid 10 style) for the OS, and it'll put a small initial partition across all of them for the OS and use the rest of each drive's space for data (VMs, etc).

Don't get me wrong, you can use separate drives for OS and data if you want. But you don't need to and it's more of a legacy approach from previous years.