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Got proxmox setup on this. Pretty impressed with Proxmox in general. Haven't really explored Proxmox a lot in the past as I always just ran the apps and software directly on the metal.

What do you guys use Proxmox for?
 

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Have several customers with mini-pc's running ProxMox for whole home / small business solutions.
(Ie. firewall / adguard / HA / uptimeKuma / application servers / SDWAN routing)

At office use Nutanix as primary with ProxMox on older / spare hardware for DEV / DR / testing.

At home have 2 clusters and a few single hosts for lab / dev
 
Switched away from Proxmox in favour of UnRaid due to not requiring VM's any longer.

Ironically now Unraid also does VM's but I still don't use them.

It's a solid product for that use case though and dare I say it better than the paid for VMWare options...
 
cavedog said:
Got proxmox setup on this. Pretty impressed with Proxmox in general. Haven't really explored Proxmox a lot in the past as I always just ran the apps and software directly on the metal.

What do you guys use Proxmox for?
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That looks like a netflix OCA caching server.
 
Running PVE on a Tiny with 16GB of RAM and an i5-8500T that runs three LXC containers and two VM's.

One VM has around 17 containers running on it. It's pretty awesome software.

Edited, messed up the CPU specs...it was an i5-8500T, not an i5-6500T
 
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PhireSide said:
Running PVE on a Tiny with 16GB of RAM and an i5-6500T that runs three LXC containers and two VM's.

One VM has around 17 containers running on it. It's pretty awesome software.
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Why not run the containers directly?
 
Another option for you to try (OKD + OKD Virt (aka KubeVirt).

k8s + virt all in one place ;)

I'm not a fan of Proxmox in an enterprise setting due to their bad support options.
 
Running a 3-node setup - do i need it? Of course not!! Its fun though and use it to learn and tinker. I wasn't thinking ahead when i set this up so it not optimal but if i find time i will rebuild it following proper architecture around storage and networking. But for now it meets my needs

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- my legal series addiction software
- UnFi Controller
- AdGuard
- and Linux testing VMs

I've looked at running a LanCache VM but realistically i don't download game often enough to use it
 
noob question, but is proxmox better than ESXI server, or am I getting Proxmox confused with where it sits as compared to VMware, HyperV, in the windows stack,

is arcserve something else entirely then?

total noob questions, but if you dont ask, you will never know these terms flying around.
 
Jet-Fighter7700 said:
noob question, but is proxmox better than ESXI server, or am I getting Proxmox confused with where it sits as compared to VMware, HyperV, in the windows stack,

is arcserve something else entirely then?

total noob questions, but if you dont ask, you will never know these terms flying around.
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They are all Type 1 hypervisors. Depending on the needs of user/business, ESXI/VMware is more common to Enterprise businesses due to being paid/support channels available. More business have started to opt away from VMware because of the recent Broadcom takeover/price restructure. Proxmox is a much cheaper (there is a free community accessible version) alternative and development has ramped up recently since business have started looking away from the likes of VMware.
 
Retro1337 said:
They are all Type 1 hypervisors. Depending on the needs of user/business, ESXI/VMware is more common to Enterprise businesses due to being paid/support channels available. More business have started to opt away from VMware because of the recent Broadcom takeover/price restructure. Proxmox is a much cheaper (there is a free community accessible version) alternative and development has ramped up recently since business have started looking away from the likes of VMware.
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thanks for explaining it in a way I can understand, finally this term makes a bit more sense,
with cloud becoming more of a ingrained technology, are hypervisors still necessary?
 
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