I have an old x86_64 computer which I am planning to use as a NAS. Which of the 2 is a better option? Is it helpful or better to run on bare metal or as a VM on proxmox?

  • nezbyte@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    OMV with SnapRaid+MergerFS in a Proxmox VM. I used an LSI card with PCI passthrough to the VM so it could see the drives. Nightly snapshots of the VMs are very convenient if you ever need to restore/migrate your install.

      • TBi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Things are easy or free. Rarely both. :) it’s well worth learning OMV. If you have any questions I’ll try to help!

      • Nephalis@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        At the moment I do exactly that. Learn proxmox, omv, influxDB and tomorrow grafana comes around to play 😉

        Nevertheless proxmox and omv are the difficult ones if you never used a hypervisor before. And my toughest lesson was: software raid is pretty slow. This took quiet some time to realise that this was the problem.

        But it is great to have a hypervisor to play around with, test different things in containers or vms and if you mess things up, just spin up another in a few seconds and try it again. It just feels less impactfull than reinstalling all stuff on one machine.

        And you learn a lot about networks along the way if you aren’t already familliar with it.