Comment on Proxmox setup - help needed
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 3 months ago
Some concerns:
- get multiple smaller harddrives and put them into some kind of RAID / zpool with redundancy. the drives will fail.
- there is absolutely zero reason to have a VM per service when a container will do. There are no advantages. But VMs will take significantly more resources and be harder to right-size. There is no restore/backup advantage using VMs.
- for that reason there is also no reason to use proxmox in the first place, unless you want to learn proxmox. Truenas scale for example comes with pre-installed k3s.
- I would get a separate hardware firewall because it makes easier to expand the network later.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thank you for advising me of your concerns!
That’d require moving all to a different hardware platform. I hope to get the risks associated with failing drives mitigated by the Proxmox backup server
That’s good advice! It seems I need to get comfortable with automatic backups of Docker containers and data volumes
Getting familiar with Proxmox is indeed one of the reasons I switched to that route. My initial plan was to replace the mini PC with the X300 and move all to docker. Then one consideration lead to another. Maybe I need to re-evaluate whether going the Proxmox route is worth the trouble.
I agree that’s another reason for having a hardware firewall besides the security aspects of having one.
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 3 months ago
The containers will store their data in volumes, and ideally those volumes are individual ZFS datasets. The containers themselves are stateless, and you can just boot them up with the volume to “restore” them.
However if you want to learn proxmox anyway this is a moot point anyway.