Comment on Putting HDDs to sleep
frongt@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
First of all, a NAS VM is generally considered a bad idea that has been discussed before so I won’t repeat it here.
Anything using those drives is going to keep them awake. Usually, NAS software runs background tasks, as does proxmox. You’ll have to identify and schedule them to shut down during sleep hours.
But that’s going to be a huge pain, because eventually you’ll find it’s gone to sleep when you haven’t, and you want access. I’d see if you could configure proxmox to suspend the VMs and put the whole thing to sleep when you push the power button.
thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
I’ll gladly take the advice on the NAS VM, I see so many tutorials virtualising TrueNAS and not a lot of the opposite viewpoint. If it’s not a good practice I’d indeed rather recycle that setup while I’m at it.
I don’t need to keep using Proxmox, or TrueNAS for that matter. If I need to DIY this with bare metal Debian, I will. My constraint is to have both always-on services and on-demand HDD backed services on the same machine. Sky is the limit after that…
Scheduling doesn’t sound the best indeed, which is why I’d ideally want a simple button that I can click from a GUI.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 days ago
I think it’s mostly advised against virtualizing because of problems with virtual filesystems, passing through your drives eliminats most reasons against it. I think this thread links most of the points. I think it was also in TrueNAS docs, but I can’t find it rn.
truenas.com/…/absolutely-must-virtualize-truenas-…
thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Thanks - from what I see myu CPU doesn’t support VT-d, only VT-x, which at a glance makes it not suitable for passing through these drives safely. I’ll get to dismantling the NAS VM setup actually.
frongt@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I had a longer reply typed out, but I guess the network ate it. The gist was to consider a second low power device for the always on services that don’t need the big noisy storage.
thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
I currently have exactly this setup but I really want to migrate to a single machine :)
frongt@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I think you have two goals at odds with each other.