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Planning on setting up Proxmox and moving most services there. Some questions (midwest.social)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am currently running most of my stuff from an unraid box using spare parts I have. It seems like I am hitting my limit on it and just want to turn it into a NAS. Micro PCs/USFF are what I am planning on moving stuff to (probably a cluster of 2 for now but might expand later.). Just a few quick questions:

Running arr services on a proxmox cluster to download to a device on the same network. I don't think there would be any problems but wanted to see what changes need to be done.
Which micro PCs are you running? I am leaving towards HP prodesk or Lenovo 7xx/9xx series around 200 each. I don't really plan on getting more than 2-3 and don't run too many things, but would want enough overhead if I switch stuff over to home assistant and windows and Linux VMs if needed.
Any best practices you recommend when starting a Proxmox cluster? I've learned over time it's best to set it up correctly than try to fix stuff when it's running. I wish I could coach myself from 7 years ago now. Would of saved a lot of headaches lol.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Use ZFS when prompted - it opens up some features and is a bitch to change later. I don't understand why it's not the default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I personally use both Btrfs and ZFS. For the main install I went with btrfs raid 1 as it is simpler and doesn't have as much overhead.

I was a little worried about stability but I've had no issues and was able to swap a dead ssd without issue. It been going for almost 2 years now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From what I read disk wear out on consumer drives is a concern when using ZFS for boot drives with proxmox. I don’t know if the issues are exaggerated, but to be safe I ended up picking up some used enterprise SSDs off eBay for that reason.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This seems to be a "widely believed fact" but I haven't seen any real data to back it up.