Oh that sounds epic actually. Just like Wizard said tho, I too am curious on your setup. What VM solution? I’ve been looking lightly into ProxMox, but I know nothing much more than the name so far lol.
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Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
I’m using a 2019 Dell SFF OptiPlex.
With the current 8TB data drive, it idles at 18w, but being Intel, can convert or tranacose very quickly.
With the previous 2TB drive it idled at 12w, little mire than a Pi, but far more capable.
I run my PiHole on it, and Jellyfin, HandBrake, etc, plus 4 VMs using VMware for some other stuff as needed (testing mostly).
Hard to beat the bang for buck, or per watt.
linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
I’ve run Proxmox on it, but it was overly complex and overkill for my use case.
Right now the host OS is Windows Server running VMware Workstation. Pihole runs in a VM (DietPi), which auto starts on reboot. Fast setup, runs as my DC, VM’s as needed with enough performance (though not as much as I’d like for my virtualization goals).
Next box will be my own build since this one is limited on space.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How do you have it setup though? I got a hp elitedesk 800 micro and wondering what way to set it up
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Can you be more specific?
I first ran Proxmox on it (which ran fine, just overkill for my use-case).
Now it’s Windows server and anything I do on it is done in a VM via VMware Workstation (since it’s free). So the host os doesn’t see much change and any changes that break things can be rolled back via a VM snapshot. Proxmox ZFS would be better for this, but I don’t need it, yet.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I was mostly just wondering which OS and how you have your pihole and jellyfin set up.
cevn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Fedora works for both of those