<div dir="auto">Indeed!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Proxmox has been on of my all time favorite VM solutions. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you dig down into the docs I think you will see why. But there is a ton of digging you can do. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 9:48 AM <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Very exciting what we are to do with modern hardware.<br>
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On 2022-10-09 03:43, Stephen Partington wrote:<br>
> I have run proxmox on Mac minis 4 cores/8 threads and originally 8gm<br>
> ram. I upgraded ram heavily and stuffed in an ssd to run as a lvm<br>
> cache to the 5400 1t drive and it performed well as a home lab server<br>
> for years.<br>
> <br>
> All the rest is use case recommended for a server. Possibly in<br>
> production.<br>
> <br>
> On Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 9:08 PM <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
>> That sounds scary.<br>
>> <br>
>> Ok, so I am coming away with a vCPU is = to a thread. RAM is<br>
>> fixed. I<br>
>> read Proxmox requires 2GB of RAM and I was unable to determine the<br>
>> number of cores for Proxmox.<br>
>> <br>
>> Proxmox says you will need Intel EMT64 or AMD64 with Intel VT/AMD-V<br>
>> CPU<br>
>> flag.<br>
>> <br>
>> They suggest SSD disks, and redundant Gbit NICs. I assume along<br>
>> these<br>
>> lines you would want redundant power supplies.<br>
>> <br>
>> Another Question :<br>
>> <br>
>> I have a Cox business connection that allows me to run servers and<br>
>> to be<br>
>> allocated more than 1 static IP.<br>
>> <br>
>> I can see me configuring at least 4 virtual machines for LAMP - PHP<br>
>> testing and development, and a VM for a real website. Not all of<br>
>> these<br>
>> VMs would be active at once.<br>
>> <br>
>> Since I would be running this out of my home office, to be safe, I<br>
>> would<br>
>> need enough RAM to allocate 4GB of RAM of reach _active_ VM and 2<br>
>> vCPUs,<br>
>> and to be safe maybe 4GB of ram and 2 cores for Proxmox.<br>
>> <br>
>> For 4 simultaneously active VMs I would need 8vCPUs (8 threads) and<br>
>> 4GB<br>
>> of RAM each or 16GB of RAM. Add to that 2 Cores/4 threads and 4GB<br>
>> of<br>
>> RAM for Proxmox and I would need 12 threads or 6 cores and 20GB of<br>
>> RAM.<br>
>> <br>
>> I'm thinking a 500GB SSD would be enough and if I like I could add a<br>
>> <br>
>> redundant NIC and a redundant power supply.<br>
>> <br>
>> Pretty much a consumer grade box?<br>
>> <br>
>> Your thoughts?<br>
>> <br>
>> On 2022-10-07 18:23, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
>>> Hit reply too soon. You can share or overprovision ram but you<br>
>> have to<br>
>>> enable some features and load a couple of os level drivers to make<br>
>> it<br>
>>> work.<br>
>>> <br>
>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:22 PM Stephen Partington<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>> wrote:<br>
>>> <br>
>>>> And you can share ram across containers not vms.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:21 PM Stephen Partington<br>
>>>> <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> i love proxmox.have used it fir years<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> The vcou is socket x cores x2 if you have hyperv/smt<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> So a 4 core ht cpu would be 8vcpu.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 7:35 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss<br>
>>>> <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> Hi,<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> I just watched a video that covered the Proxmox Hypervisor.<br>
>> Seems<br>
>>>> simple enough. I've used Oracle's VirtualBox for years.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> So I did some research on what a vCPU is. I was suppressed. The<br>
>>>> math<br>
>>>> given was (Threads x Cores) x Physical CPU = Number vCPU.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> I have an old laptop that has 1 socket, 2 cores, four threads,<br>
>> and<br>
>>>> 4GB<br>
>>>> of RAM.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> Given the math (4 x 2) x 1 = 8 vCPUS. Is this correct?<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> From my reading it appears that RAM is not shared, so my<br>
>> bottleneck<br>
>>>> is<br>
>>>> RAM not cores or threads.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> I am a PHP developer and a local vps would need 2GB of RAM at a<br>
>>>> minimum.<br>
>>>> I have found a LAMP VPS will crash if allocated less than 2GB of<br>
>>>> RAM,<br>
>>>> and will run will on 1 vCPU.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> The good news is I really only need one VPS to be active at any<br>
>>>> given<br>
>>>> time.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> If I wanted to build a box that could run more than one VPS at a<br>
>>>> time,<br>
>>>> lets say 4, and I wanted to allocate 2 vCPUs and 4GB of RAM I<br>
>> would<br>
>>>> need<br>
>>>> 4 threads x 2 cores to run the 4 VPS configured with 2 vCPUs<br>
>> each.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> What about RAM. Looks like I would need a minimum of 16GB of<br>
>> ram.<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> How much resources does the Hypervisor need, in this case<br>
>> Proxmox?<br>
>>>> <br>
>>>> Thanks!!<br>
>>>> Keith<br>
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