Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

[Steve Litt]

On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 06:50 -0700, keith Miller via PLUG-discuss 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

Hi Keith,

The Proxmox docs seem to strongly encourage using RAID, but I have no business
justification for the time and money involved in RAID. How well or poorly will it
work just operating off 250GB SSD for / and a 6TB 7200rpm spinning rust for the
rest?

Also, space is at a premium in my house. Can I admin a Proxmox machine connected to
my LAN, via the web interface, from my Daily Driver Desktop (DDD) also connected to
my lan? I'd like to run my Proxmox machine headless except for very rare
troubleshooting.

I have a 2 core AMD machine with 16GB RAM and about 6TB of 7200 spinning rust just
hanging around (it's my old DDD). Do you think that would be sufficient for just
fooling around with?

Thanks,

SteveT