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As you've found, proxmox isnt an application that runs on windows or Linux. It's an OS that you can install. And yes, you can configure bit to auto start the VMs when the machine boots.
It's designed to run headless, so you'll do all your configurations from a web browser. If you want to go crazy, I'm sure that raspberry pi can be configured as KVM for it (though piKVM is a bit of extra hardware.)
If you have something like tailscale or wireguard to a machine in the house, you can easily reach the web gui from any other machine on the VPN network and reboot the VMs that way.
You can even build monitoring that reboots the pihole VM of it stops responding to DNS queries.
Now this is something I’m interested in! I think I’m going to pick up that 3040 to set up and play around with since it’s so cheap. The i5-6500 should handle it well enough, right?
Yep, Proxmox itself is very light on resources, so most is available for the VMs / containers.
Just another point... I've had some issues with Dell BIOS not respecting the Power On after power loss settings - usually a BIOS upgrade solves that and 99% of Dells still have "just 1 more" update on the website...
I'd also recommend installing Wake on LAN on that Pi too... then if you VPN in from outside you can SSH into the Pi and power on other things that "accidentally" got shutdown.
Oh I didn’t know about this either. Thanks! About to set that up right now!