I have a trusty UnRaid server that has been running great for almost 3 years now, with some kinks and headaches here and there, but mostly very stable. Now I’m entertaining the idea of setting that box up with ProxMox, and running UnRaid virtualized. The reason being that I want to use UnRaid exclusively as a NAS and then run all dockers and VMs on ProxMox (at least that’s how I’m picturing it). I would like to know your opinion on this idea. All I have is Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Calibre, Kavita and a Windows VM I use to update some hardware every now and then. I mainly want to do that for the backup capabilities in ProxMox for each instance. Storage is not a concern, and I have 64GB of ECC Ram running in that box. What are the Pros and Cons, or is it even worth it to move all this to ProxMox?

  • Mixel@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I am in the same boat currently and thinking about how I can migrate my stuff over without having a 1 month downtime EDIT: after reading all the comments I’m still not sure if I should do it or like I said even how. I love my unraid it fits me well however I think I also have fallen in love with proxmox

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Yup. I think I’m going to go the 2 servers way after all, but not before I try doing it in one, because, we’ll, why not? Isn’t that what home labs are about? 🤣🤣🤣

      • Mixel@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Please keep me up to date what you try and how you are trying to migrate it over! :D and obviously good luck

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          Absolutely. This is why I love Lemmy as a whole, and my wife hates it.

          The combined amount of wisdom I’ve found here interacting with so many smart individuals is a serious treasure of knowledge and a powerful drive to keep exploring and learning.

    • Pyrosis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      It’s the production vs development issue. My advice is the old tech advice. “If it’s not broken don’t try to fix it”

      Modified into a separate proxmox development environment. Btw proxmox is perfect for this with vm and container snapshots.

      When you get a vm or container in a more production ready state then you can attempt migrations. That way the users don’t kill you :)

      • Mixel@feddit.deEnglish
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        7 months ago

        That is true, I mean I mostly only use my homelab except some game servers that I am running. And you are totally right. Only reason why I want to run proxmox or in general why I have a homelab is to learn more about servers and self hosting. I am currently in the first year of my apprenticeship and I have learned so much since I got my server up and running 😄 and I think I can learn a lot more when I am using proxmox