That mini had only one nic. And I ran about 4 containers and 2 vms just fine. On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 6:43 AM 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 >> >