I’ve got a pile of hardware as well. 3 old sff desktops. A pile of 2.5gbe nics, ram, nvmes, and ssds to put in them. Proxmox iso on a thumb drive with Ventoy. All ready to go.
Gonna run kubernetes atop proxmox, and a bunch of stuff atop that.
Have another tower I set up for storage. I installed all the drives, and proxmox, and OMV…and just left it there.
Now I’m thinking I might put the drives in my tower, with the GPU, and giving it a small VM for OMV and a bigger VM for Moonlight. Then I can just have a nice silent NUC for my desktop. I have several of those ready to go as well.
Ive setup that proxmox cluster, down to the sff and and the 2.5gb nics. Ceph works decently at 2.5gb, but there are some foibles. Anything running sqlite will need to be on local disc instead of the ceph data store to sort out write errors. It wont be in HA by default, but you can still power it off and migrate it to the ceph store, and the move it if you need to do long term maintance.
I also have GPU passthrough setup on my jellyfin container, so that isnt in HA either. Still, worth the performance bump, even with an sff gpu.
I’ve got a pile of hardware as well. 3 old sff desktops. A pile of 2.5gbe nics, ram, nvmes, and ssds to put in them. Proxmox iso on a thumb drive with Ventoy. All ready to go.
Gonna run kubernetes atop proxmox, and a bunch of stuff atop that.
Have another tower I set up for storage. I installed all the drives, and proxmox, and OMV…and just left it there.
Now I’m thinking I might put the drives in my tower, with the GPU, and giving it a small VM for OMV and a bigger VM for Moonlight. Then I can just have a nice silent NUC for my desktop. I have several of those ready to go as well.
Ive setup that proxmox cluster, down to the sff and and the 2.5gb nics. Ceph works decently at 2.5gb, but there are some foibles. Anything running sqlite will need to be on local disc instead of the ceph data store to sort out write errors. It wont be in HA by default, but you can still power it off and migrate it to the ceph store, and the move it if you need to do long term maintance.
I also have GPU passthrough setup on my jellyfin container, so that isnt in HA either. Still, worth the performance bump, even with an sff gpu.