Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

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Yikes!!  Do you run that at home?  Thank you for all this info.

I see you were at MortarVille.  I assume you were FA?  I was Aviation 
Ordnance in the USMC and after I got out I spent 6 years in the AZARNG 
doing FA - M109.






On 2022-10-09 06:50, keith Miller wrote:
> Couple of items, I've used Promox for about 4-5 years  now, very nice
> hypervisor have had no problems what soever
> I current run it on a Dell R-610 with 96Gig of ram and 6TB of HD,
> hosting 5 linux servers and desktopsetup with about 8 domains and 1
> email server all are Linux based, the mail server is awesome
> 
> system called Zimbra completely free, I'm hosting a number of open
> source decentralized social network, Peertube (Youtube work alike) ,
> Mastodon (Socal Network) , Piwigo (Picture hosting), OSSN (Social
> Network)
> , WebTrees (Geniology), OsClass script (ForSale/Want ads), Simple
> Machines (Forum), WordPress (Blogging site)
> So I use it alot
> 
> https://geeekscove.com
> https://vetiraq.com
> https://ourlifeinpiixs.com
> https://millermemories.us
> https://aztalker.com
> https://thesellerscove.com/
> 
> https://topic-master.com
> https://thebloggerspot.com/
> 
> http://www.aztalker.com
> 
> I might also recommend highly the use of Virtualmin as a hypervisor I
> have used it for about 2 years and am a subscriber to both systems
> Proxmox cost me 175.00  a year two processors 75.00 each for
> updates/upgrades and the Virtualmin is 7.50 a month for
> updates/Upgrades
> 
> I might also say the virtualmin really has a nice routine for easy
> installation and renewal of Lets Encrypt
> 
> Keith
> 
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 4:35 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just watched a video that covered the Proxmox Hypervisor.  Seems
>> simple enough.  I've used Oracle's VirtualBox for years.
>> 
>> So I did some research on what a vCPU is.  I was suppressed.  The
>> math
>> given was (Threads x Cores) x Physical CPU = Number vCPU.
>> 
>> I have an old laptop that has 1 socket, 2 cores, four threads, and
>> 4GB
>> of RAM.
>> 
>> Given the math (4 x 2) x 1 = 8 vCPUS.  Is this correct?
>> 
>> From my reading it appears that RAM is not shared, so my bottleneck
>> is
>> RAM not cores or threads.
>> 
>> I am a PHP developer and a local vps would need 2GB of RAM at a
>> minimum.
>> I have found a LAMP VPS will crash if allocated less than 2GB of
>> RAM,
>> and will run will on 1 vCPU.
>> 
>> The good news is I really only need one VPS to be active at any
>> given
>> time.
>> 
>> If I wanted to build a box that could run more than one VPS at a
>> time,
>> lets say 4, and I wanted to allocate 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM I would
>> need
>> 4 threads x 2 cores to run the 4 VPS configured with 2 vCPUs each.
>> 
>> What about RAM.  Looks like I would need a minimum of 16GB of ram.
>> 
>> How much resources does the Hypervisor need, in this case Proxmox?
>> 
>> Thanks!!
>> Keith
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> Keith D. Miller