New NUC - best practice for HA? (Migration from Virtualbox)

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Picked up a second hand NUC form Carbonite.
Now I need to move my install from the old HP server running Mint and Virtualbox to the new machine.
Any thoughts on the best practice here?

Linux? if so which version? Proxmox? Virtualbox again?
Keep it Windows (which is installed on the NUC currently) ?
ANy tips would be much appreciated. thanks
 
Start with:

1. Link the windows install to your microsoft account. This should allow you to move the license around if you want. Some limits apply about how many times a year or something like that.

I personally would recommend proxmox, its free and it will make life easier managing VMs remotely. HA in it's own VM.
 
mrb13676 said:
Picked up a second hand NUC form Carbonite.
Now I need to move my install from the old HP server running Mint and Virtualbox to the new machine.
Any thoughts on the best practice here?

Linux? if so which version? Proxmox? Virtualbox again?
Keep it Windows (which is installed on the NUC currently) ?
ANy tips would be much appreciated. thanks
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What else do you want to run on the NUC besides HA?
 
OCP said:
In that case you don't *need* Proxmox (unless you want to easy backup/replicate/snapshot)

Just install your Linux flavor of choice (ie. Rocky / Ubuntu server) + docker

Then install the image from here: docker pull homeassistant/home-assistant
https://hub.docker.com/r/homeassistant/home-assistant for reference.
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Just be aware with this, if you ever need AppDaemon or some other add on, without the supervised install, you have to configure everything yourself which can become frustrating and time consuming
 
I would install a GUI Linux and then HA with docker.
 
I opted for a headless server, which kind of excluded windows options. My HA is running in a container on a Debian machine.
 
s0lar said:
Why a UI? What possible benefit?
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Just for multi use. Its a nice low power device so running IP camera software, Plex, data, etc software on it doesn't use much power.
 
B-1 said:
Just for multi use. Its a nice low power device so running IP camera software, Plex, data, etc software on it doesn't use much power.
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Windows in a proxmox vm works fine for this. It's what I do for my blue iris vm. Can rdp to it.
 
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