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 <
techlists@phpcoderusa.com> 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?
>
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> 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 <cryptworks@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> And you can share ram across containers not vms.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 9:21 PM Stephen Partington
> >> <cryptworks@gmail.com> 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
> >> <plug-discuss@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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