I’m running three servers: one for home automation/NVR, one for NAS/media services, and one for network/firewall services.

Does this breakdown look doable based on the hardware? Should the services be ditributed differently for better efficiency?

Server 1 and 3 are already up and running. I just received my NAS, and am trying to decide where to run each service to best take advantage of my hardware.

I’m also considering UnRaid instead of Proxmox for a NAS OS. I just chose Proxmox because I’m familiar with it, and I like the ability to snapshot. I also intend to run Proxmox Backup Server offsite at some point, and I like the PVE/PBS integration.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I personally would avoid LXC. That seems to be a hot take but in my experience it is better to run docker/podman in a few VMs.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Maybe I’m doing it wrong then. I run LXC but has always been a much worse experience. Boot times are terrible and the controls that work for VMs don’t work as well for LXC. You also can live transfer which is problematic for me.

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I think you’re doing it wrong. LXCs boot almost instantaneously on a hypervisor since they hijack the host kernel, I’d be surprised if my CTs take 5 seconds.

          I would agree on the live migration issue but I guess you pick your services accordingly. I have a VM that runs docker and a LXC docker host, and I pick my containers for each accordingly.

          • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            2 days ago

            How on earth are you getting 5 second boot time with LXC? My containers take around 10 minutes to boot while VMs take a few seconds. Also LXC networking seems to break randomly.

            Edit: I went back and figured it out. It was that IPv6 was set to dhcp in Proxmox which caused everything to halt until timeout. I set it to static in Proxmox and now it boots instantly

            • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 days ago

              I have no idea what you have going on, I’ve never seen LXCs take that long, even if I include the time it takes to down the containers and bring them up after a reboot.

              What are you using for running them? I just tested my docker LXC and it took 16 seconds from when I typed “reboot” to having a login prompt. And that’s on an ancient R410 server running proxmox.

    • lka1988@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Not everything plays nice in Docker, and there are plenty of those services that also don’t need a full VM to operate. LXC is great for those edge cases. Otherwise I agree, a few VMs for various Docker stacks is the way to go.