Comment on I keep waffling on Proxmox. Sell me. For or against.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 week ago
Not sure what youre doing with OMV that couldn’t be done in proxmox, so feel free to elaborate there.
Almost all my servers are proxmox (some just Debian, though a few more specific work related solutions are lurking about). For docker I’d do an LXC, btw, I wouldn’t bother with a full VM.
My (excessive) setup is all proxmox, set up as a high availabikity cluster. HA runs in a VM, and my USB devices are passed through (technically its USB over IP extension, so the USB devices for various VMs continually pass through even if I have to shut a server down).
Its where Jellyfin, Audiobookshelf, homepage.dev, a bajillion stupid containers I mostly dont need, DNS, monitoring and analytics, mealie (recipe server), various websites I host, etc, etc all live. Nothing is by itself on a box except my workstations, but for non-linux use I have VMs I remote into (mostly industry specific software and random crap like an xp VM to use an old piece of hardware).
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Can you quickly run me through how USB over IP is helping you out? I get it for devices that are physically distant, but how is the abstraction helping you for reboots? Isn’t it just the server you’re rebooting that talks to the USB device anyway?
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 days ago
I have a single.ip transmitter and multiple receivers, IP controllable and routable.
If VM1 uses USB device1 on RX1 from tx1, and host1 goes down, when VM1 is going to be run on host2, rx2 is switched as the receive from tx1, and VM1 still has access to the USB device.
For the record, icron 2304s I got because of work stuff (that accepts commands, which are the version they only oem now).
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ah, got it, it’s for VM migrations. That makes a lot more sense.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 5 days ago
Ah yeah, sorry, didnt realize that wasn’t clear.
Only one machine at a time handles USB devices by design - OTA TV tuner, zigbee/zwave, USB to serial adapter, and an 8 channel relay.