Comment on Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
VMs under KVM are pretty much bare metal and Proxmox doesn’t use much for resources itself, it’s basically a headless Debian with a webserver interface to do all the KVM stuff.
Proxmox, especially if you use ZFS for the VM datastore, makes a home lab so much easier to revert, backup and deploy/clone VMs and LXCs. I highly recommend it if you’re just starting out. Once you wrap your head around it, it gets out of the way and lets you just tinker with your projects, and not have to manually do everything in VirtManager or at the command line.
SaintWacko@midwest.social 4 months ago
Seconding this. Especially if you’re still learning and making mistakes, it’s so nice to just be able to destroy a VM/CT and start over, rather then potentially breaking other things or the OS itself.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Also needs mentioning: clustering. I have a six year old cluster with none of the hardware I originally started with, but my Pi-hole is still there. Having the ability to migrate guests between hosts is a game changer when you frequently replace or rebuild said hosts. With the right setup, migration can have as little as a few seconds of downtime, or even no downtime at all. You can’t do that with bare metal installs.