Very exciting what we are to do with modern hardware. On 2022-10-09 03:43, Stephen Partington wrote: > I have run proxmox on Mac minis 4 cores/8 threads and originally 8gm > ram. I upgraded ram heavily and stuffed in an ssd to run as a lvm > cache to the 5400 1t drive and it performed well as a home lab server > for years. > > All the rest is use case recommended for a server. Possibly in > production. > > On Sat, Oct 8, 2022, 9:08 PM wrote: > >> That sounds scary. >> >> Ok, so I am coming away with a vCPU is = to a thread. RAM is >> fixed. I >> read Proxmox requires 2GB of RAM and I was unable to determine the >> number of cores for Proxmox. >> >> Proxmox says you will need Intel EMT64 or AMD64 with Intel VT/AMD-V >> CPU >> flag. >> >> They suggest SSD disks, and redundant Gbit NICs. I assume along >> these >> lines you would want redundant power supplies. >> >> Another Question : >> >> I have a Cox business connection that allows me to run servers and >> to be >> allocated more than 1 static IP. >> >> I can see me configuring at least 4 virtual machines for LAMP - PHP >> testing and development, and a VM for a real website. Not all of >> these >> VMs would be active at once. >> >> Since I would be running this out of my home office, to be safe, I >> would >> need enough RAM to allocate 4GB of RAM of reach _active_ VM and 2 >> vCPUs, >> and to be safe maybe 4GB of ram and 2 cores for Proxmox. >> >> For 4 simultaneously active VMs I would need 8vCPUs (8 threads) and >> 4GB >> of RAM each or 16GB of RAM. Add to that 2 Cores/4 threads and 4GB >> of >> RAM for Proxmox and I would need 12 threads or 6 cores and 20GB of >> RAM. >> >> I'm thinking a 500GB SSD would be enough and if I like I could add a >> >> redundant NIC and a redundant power supply. >> >> Pretty much a consumer grade box? >> >> Your thoughts? >> >> On 2022-10-07 18:23, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: >>> Hit reply too soon. You can share or overprovision ram but you >> have to >>> enable some features and load a couple of os level drivers to make >> it >>> work. >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:22 PM Stephen Partington >> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> And you can share ram across containers not vms. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:21 PM Stephen Partington >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> i love proxmox.have used it fir years >>>> >>>> The vcou is socket x cores x2 if you have hyperv/smt >>>> >>>> So a 4 core ht cpu would be 8vcpu. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 7:35 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss >>>> 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 >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss