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Getting Started with Proxmox (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by modeh@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone,

I finally managed to get my hands on a Beelink EQ 14 to upgrade from the RPi running DietPi that I have been using for many years to host my services.

I have always was interested in using Proxmox and today is the day. Only problem is I am not sure where to start. For example, do you guys spin up a VM for every service you intend to run? Do you set it up as ext4, btrfs, or zfs? Do you attach external HDD/SSD to expand your storage (beyond the 2 PCIe slots in the Beelink in this example).

I’ve only started reading up on Proxmox just today so I am by no means knowledgeable on the topic

I hope to hear how you guys setup yours and how you use it in terms of hosting all your services (nextcloud, vaultwarden, cgit, pihole, unbound, etc…) and your ”Dos and Don’ts“

Thank you 😊

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[–] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

i have very few services and tend to lean into virtual machines instead of containers out of habit. i have proxmox running on an old mini-pc that needs to be replaced at some point. 16GB of RAM in it, 4 cores on the CPU (it's an i3 at 2ghz), and a 100GB SSD.

VMs and services are as follows:

ubuntu vm
- runs my omada controller in docker
- used to run all of my containers in docker but i migrated them to podman
fedora vm
- runs several containers via podman
  - alexandrite, where i'm composing this now!
  - uptime kuma
  - redlib for browsing reddit
  - kanboard for organizing my contracting work
dietpi in a vm to run pi-hole (migrated here when my pi zero-w cooked itself)
- this also handles internal dns for each server so i don't have to type out IP addresses
home assistant HAOS vm

home assistant backs itself up to my craptastic nas and the rest of the stuff doesn't really have any backups. i wouldn't be upset if they died, except for my kanboard instance. i can rebuild that from scratch if needed.

i'll be investing in a new mini-pc and some more disks soon, though.