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New home server: what hypervisor/OS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a couple of home server, both with Proxmox as hypervisor, one VM with Ubuntu 22.04 that does just Docker containers, one with Open Media Vault, one with Home Assistant (HA OS) and a couple of Windows VM to do some tests. Since I wanted to move from OMV, right now I see 2 options:

stay with Proxmox and find another NAS OS
use Unraid as NAS and hypervisor

What other option would you suggest?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What's the advantage to using proxmox and virtualizing TrueNAS in your use case?

I'm looking to setup a TrueNAS box mostly as a file server (I have a bunch of spare drives sitting around, so I can duplicate locally and then backup to a cloud provider), but also as a docker host.

(I'm also researching some setups for friends businesses with the VMware debacle - they have a year to migrate).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have a lot of services. I use Ansible to manage many of them, so they're all in one VM. I use Home Assistant, which works best when installed as a whole VM or on bare metal. For the remaining services that I have yet to set up with Ansible, I keep the services that need the GPU on one VM, and everything else on another. Finally, I have an LXC container that is my SSH entrypoint and Ansible management system.

I could technically use TrueNAS Scale as a hypervisor for all this, but Proxmox has a lot of quality-of-life features that make it a better hypervisor. I could use Proxmox for ZFS and shares, but TrueNAS has has a lot of quality-of-life features that make it a much better NAS, so I virtualize it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Neat, thanks for the info.

Guess I need to read up on what Proxmox offers - I was focusing on TrueNAS as a simple all-on one, maybe Proxmox has something for me.