Comment on Server upgrade/replacement help
Xanza@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The easiest solution would be to wipe Windows and replace it with Proxmox–which is an actual server solution. Then using Proxmox you can setup your other services from within Proxmox using docker or LXC containers.
There’s no real need to get crazy with it. From there everything is controlled by Proxmox via containers. You can easily setup Jellyfin/Plex, *arr stack, HomeAssistant, and even your NAS. You can then import your configurations and for your NAS (using TrueNAS or whichever you’d like) you’d be able to expose it to your existing shares. It comes with the advantage of a forward moving server setup that’s not “future proof” but future resistant. Proxmox is an actively developed and excellent server architecture. Although not officially, it can even expose your GPU to your containers so transcoding with Jellyfin/Plex should work just fine.
I think this is what I’m leaning towards as I have very briefly played around with Proxmox on an Optiplex micro and was impressed with it.
After some more research I realized that TrueNAS probably won’t work as I have drives of various sizes pooled together so maybe UnRAID, OMV, or something else. Do you know if Proxmox’s native NAS can handle that or does it also require you to have multiples of the same drive?
So that would be a limitation of whichever filesystem you use. I’ve not personally done it, but this reddit user uses a CEPH cluster to be able to hotplug storage into a volume. But doing just that gives you no redundancy, so you would have to do a little research into how to set it up, but it looks like using the CEPH cluster is what you’re looking for.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That’s not exactly the easiest solution
Xanza@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I don’t see how it’s particularly hard? Could set it up in an afternoon and have a forward thinking infrastructure from then onward that can vertically scale.