Opinions on setup I intend to do

ddjuric · 6. Februar 2020

Hi there.

This is the setup I intend to do:
HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10
AMD Opteron™ X3418 Processor (1.8-3.2GHz/4 compute cores/6 graphic cores/2MB
16GB RAM
Marvell 88SE9230 PCIe to SATA 6Gb/s Controller (embedded on board)

D1 - SDD 512GB M.2 NVMe on PCIe 3.0 for ProxMox OS running Virtual OMV OS with virtual disk + one more other OS with virtual disk
D2 - HDD 480gb 2.5'' STATA III 7200 rpm for Irelevant, general purpose
D3 - Two WD red (NAS) 3TB in RAID1 for passthrough to OMV RAID1 by OMV + NFS share by OMV to ProxMox and backup of D1, D2 and D4 + OMV services with personal data folders, public shares... etc
D4 - internal USB 16GB for ProxMox, OVM and any other CFG backups

What do you think?

- Can this hardware handle easy ProxMox VE 6 and virtual OMV 5?
- Can I do at least one more virtual machine besides OMV, like Oracle Linux with running 12c database for educational purposes only or / Linux Mint and docker-ed Oracle 12c DB?
- Should I RIDE1 this D2 WD disk mules on OMV and share them as NFS to ProxMox, or RAID1 them in ProxMox and make virtual data storages for OMV on them?
- ZFS or not, and on witch of these SDD, HDDs drive (for case of disaster and easar ability to read data from disks)?
- and finaly - shuld I use ProxMox at all, or just go with OMV5 and new Docker-Cocpit for virtualization?

THX for any opinion and suggestion.

ness1602 · 6. Februar 2020

I would run Proxmox on sata hdd or sas, never on ssd, write endurance of them is really low, so you'll fry them soon.
I always run physically separate Proxmox and OMV, but there is now harm in combining them together,just keep backups.

ryecoaaron · 6. Februar 2020

I've run proxmox on ssd on multiple systems for years. It shouldn't be any harder on an SSD than Debian or Ubuntu. I also run OMV on proxmox on multiple systems.

ddjuric · 6. Februar 2020

Thx, this solved doubts about OMV on ProxMox.

ddjuric · 7. Februar 2020

It's not clear to me what is the benefit of installing OMV as virtual inside ProxMox, unless the server is dedicated to virtualization. And it is not, it's a home NAS and DB server, so OMV and: doker DB + virtual LinuxMint shuld run better without ProxMox, right?

ness1602 · 7. Februar 2020

If you need KVM virtualization , then use proxmox . If you intend to use docker, i would recommend just using plain OMV.

ryecoaaron · 7. Februar 2020

I wanted a file server and docker host and VM host. Proxmox works well for me. I have multiple OMV VMs and one large Ubuntu VM that I use a docker host.

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