Proxmox Thread - Home Lab / Virtualization

rsaeon said:
Concerning SSD life, one of my nodes has a WD Green 120GB m.2 that is starting to fail. Reads and writes take forever, IO delays jump up to past 90%. This WD Green drive has had about 9 TBW over the course of around 450 days. HD Sentinel shows that everything is fine. But Clonezilla failed continuously when I tried to image the drive onto another.

This is a unexpected because I have DRAM-less SSDs across all my nodes, most of them being Silicon Power S55 drives and they haven't showed any of these signs. Typically IO delay is under 1%.

It could be the SATA controller since it was installed in an older Z97 system, but I'll investigate that another day. Today, it's easier to drop in another 120GB drive and reinstall proxmox.
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Yep its gone. Cheap SSDs arent for Proxmox atleast. Write amplification is insane. Backup and submit the SSD for RMA.
I had the same happen to Adata Su650 (shitty drives) twice. Once you get from RMA, sell it or use for normal PC work. (I had used mine for normal PC and it still failed lol)
 
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New to Proxmox world... currently running Proxmox on my Dell Small Form Factor i3 8th Gen desktop with 16GB ram & 256gb ssd..

my requirement is simple.. running two Proxmox VMs

1). Home Assistant (mainly for Apple Homekit enablement for all my smart devices)
Inside HA I am running few services like MQTT Broker, DuckDNS, Wireguard VPN, Samba share and Maria Database

2). Open Media Vault (NAS)
Inside OVM I have enabled Docker and running few containers such as Plex Media server, qBittorrent, jDownloader
Have enabled samba share for my External HDD for plex media sharing.. (need to configure raid)
 
MarioBros said:
New to Proxmox world... currently running Proxmox on my Dell Small Form Factor i3 8th Gen desktop with 16GB ram & 256gb ssd..

my requirement is simple.. running two Proxmox VMs

1). Home Assistant (mainly for Apple Homekit enablement for all my smart devices)
Inside HA I am running few services like MQTT Broker, DuckDNS, Wireguard VPN, Samba share and Maria Database

2). Open Media Vault (NAS)
Inside OVM I have enabled Docker and running few containers such as Plex Media server, qBittorrent, jDownloader
Have enabled samba share for my External HDD for plex media sharing.. (need to configure raid)
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OMV Im using on my Raspberry Pi 4. Its rock solid. You can pass storage disks to it directly from proxmox. You might want to search a bit for passing a raid array. I think if its done through hardware you can directly pass the array as the OS sees it as a disk?
I have no idea about Home assistant.
 
I require a machine. Use will be 4-5 vm max but a multitude of routers will be running with these 4-5 vm's. You can say 10-20 routers for testing. Originally these routers physically have 4gig of rams with decent enough processors. What should be my config and processing power.
 
rockyo27 said:
I require a machine. Use will be 4-5 vm max but a multitude of routers will be running with these 4-5 vm's. You can say 10-20 routers for testing. Originally these routers physically have 4gig of rams with decent enough processors. What should be my config and processing power.
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Whats the load like on these? If you dont have an idea then 1 core per 2 routers would be good start. So a ryzen with 8-10 cores? Perhaps you can check reddit for someone with similar requirements.
 
Party Monger said:
Whats the load like on these? If you dont have an idea then 1 core per 2 routers would be good start. So a ryzen with 8-10 cores? Perhaps you can check reddit for someone with similar requirements.
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Load won't be much as i won't be pumping lots of traffic. But ram requirement is lot otherwise they don't boot in virtual environment. Processor requirement i don't know exactly as i had a 4 core laptop but ram requirement i am sure off and would 4-5 vms work properly with that much core and this much routers
 
Party Monger said:
Can anyone suggest what container/VM to use for recording surveillance video from multiple ONVIF/RSTP cameras?
It should be able to use the intel integrated graphics/quick sync for video encoding related stuff.
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I am using Zoneminder in an LXD container. The container has an Nvidia card shared with the host which is used for machine learning based image processing on the captured video (https://zmeventnotification.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/hooks.html).
 
Check the official documentation for installation. LXD itself can be installed using snap. Read about it here. The mobile app is called zmninja and is available on playstore. I have never explored using an internal card, so you need to do your own research. Checkup on the official forums.

I dont see much of a point in running a VM if the same can be done with a lightweight container.
 
anyone here remoting into their clusture ? i can always use a vpn running in a container to remote into proxmox but what if the container fails to start then how does one remote in to proxmox to debug it. Is ssh port forward(not safe from a security perspective) the only backup solution for remoting in ?
 
fastapifastdisks said:
anyone here remoting into their clusture ? i can always use a vpn running in a container to remote into proxmox but what if the container fails to start then how does one remote in to proxmox to debug it. Is ssh port forward(not safe from a security perspective) the only backup solution for remoting in ?
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if you need remote support and have either raspberry Pi or any old hardware combo, you can run it as an IP KVM or Pi KVM. No need to reinstall the OS just add additional hardware and you should have features compatible to IPMI which are found in enterprise server's
 
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tech.monk said:
if you need remote support and have either raspberry Pi or any old hardware combo, you can run it as an IP KVM or Pi KVM. No need to reinstall the OS just add additional hardware and you should have features compatible to IPMI which are found in enterprise server's
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Can you provide any links on how to set up
 
tech.monk said:
if you need remote support and have either raspberry Pi or any old hardware combo, you can run it as an IP KVM or Pi KVM. No need to reinstall the OS just add additional hardware and you should have features compatible to IPMI which are found in enterprise server's
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thanks,will try this out and see.The price to build one though i would rather go there myself multiple times.
 
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Absolute beginner.

I started with Ubuntu 20.04 as docker host, but then read about Proxmox and recent docker support in LXC. Thought of trying it out or else will switch back to Ubuntu.
HW - NUC10i7FNH + 8GB ( will add 1 16GB stick ) + 1TB NVME( EXT4 for boot , VM, containers etc ) + 1TB SATA SSD ( NTFS for media files )

What I intend to setup
- Pihole
- Media server for SATA SSD media files. Looking at Jellyfin
- Broadcast SATA SSD as NAS ( NFS or SMB ) . If possible expose as cloud storage on internet
- 1 Ubuntu instance for python development
- ... more as we go

Where I am
- Installed Proxmox VE

What I need help for
  1. What should be my Proxmox layout ? I would prefer LXC as much as possible
  2. Storage -
    1. Besides root and swap, the entire NVME is reserved as LVM-Thin. Should I reduce it ? What can I use the freed up space for ?
    2. SATA SSD is prefilled with media files. However it is being mounted as Read-Only in Proxmox shell .. no matter what options I give in fstab.
  3. Hardware -
    1. For cooling, I've an old Intel CPU cooler. Will try to mount it on top of NUC plate w/ thermal pad . Just need to change its connector to USB. Any other ideas to keep NUC cool. At present it runs at 59 deg idle ( Ambience - 22 deg w/ 65% humid )
Highly appreciate your inputs
 
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  1. Try Turnkeycore, see video -
  2. For Storage
    1. Yes you can reduce the size of LVM-Thin - you can use the existing LVM-Thin for snapshots and clones or merge the LVM-Thinpool and Vz directory so more storage available for containers
    2. If you could share your fstab screenshot or comand you're trying to run or error you receive - it might be helpful to share the inputs back.
  3. if your NUC is out of warranty or you could remove the top plate - add external powered (you could make one using your existing Micro USB mobile charger) 90/92/120mm with filter mesh to pull air out of the box. See if it helps.
I provided these inputs based on what I have dealt with or I found it applicable, others can chime in.
 
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mk76 said:
- Pihole
- Broadcast SATA SSD as NAS ( NFS or SMB ) . If possible expose as cloud storage on internet
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For this, Create a LXC container that will run samba/adguard home(also oss and significantly easier to setup than pihole) and nfs-server. I perfer arch(but then I prefer arch for everything). Debian 11/arch are good options for this.
mk76 said:
- Media server for SATA SSD media files. Looking at Jellyfin
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For stuff like this(Jellyfin/torrents/...) I'd create a separate LXC container and configure gpu passthrough for hw transcoding.

mk76 said:
- 1 Ubuntu instance for python development
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This depends on your needs. I created a separate work vm since I need to swap out and try different kernels or load kernel modules sometimes but if you just need some higher level stuff, A LXC container should do the job.
 
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