As someone still in monolithic home server tech debt I've been meaning to migrate too. The part I always wonder about is storage - said server is a NAS, serving files over SMB and media over Plex. From what I hear some people mount and export their data array [1] directly on Proxmox and only virtualize things above the storage layer, like Plex, while others PCI-passthrough an HBA [2] to a NAS VM. I suppose one advantage of doing the former is that you might be able to directly bind mount it into an LXC container rather than using loopback SMB/NFS/9p, right?
I also hear some people just go with TrueNAS or Unraid as their bare-metal base and use it for both storage and as a hypervisor, which makes sense. I might have to try the Linux version of TrueNAS now that it's had some time to mature
I also rely on my Intel processor's built-in Quicksync for HW transcoding. Is there any trouble getting that to run through a VM, except presumably sacrificing the local Proxmox TTY?
[1] As in the one with the files on, not VHDs. I default to keeping those separate in the first place, but it's also necessary since I can't afford to put all data on SSDs nor tolerate OS roots on HDDs. Otherwise a single master ZFS array with datasets for files and zvols or just NFS for VM roots would probably be ideal
[2] Which I hear is considered more reliable than individual SATA passthrough, but has the caveat of being more coarse-grained. I.e. you wouldn't be able to have any non-array disks attached to it due to the VM having exclusive control of all its ports
> I suppose one advantage of doing the former is that you might be able to directly bind mount it into an LXC container rather than using loopback SMB/NFS/9p, right?
Yep, I do this and it's very simple to give LXCs access to parts of my storage array.
>I also hear some people just go with TrueNAS or Unraid as their bare-metal base and use it for both storage and as a hypervisor, which makes sense. I might have to try the Linux version of TrueNAS now that it's had some time to mature
Unraid is especially meant for that. But TrueNAS Scale is also good, it has Docker and Kubernetes support too.
There is also openmediavault, it's a bit more Linux-y than the Unraid or TrueNAS Scale but a lot of people love it
I also hear some people just go with TrueNAS or Unraid as their bare-metal base and use it for both storage and as a hypervisor, which makes sense. I might have to try the Linux version of TrueNAS now that it's had some time to mature
I also rely on my Intel processor's built-in Quicksync for HW transcoding. Is there any trouble getting that to run through a VM, except presumably sacrificing the local Proxmox TTY?
[1] As in the one with the files on, not VHDs. I default to keeping those separate in the first place, but it's also necessary since I can't afford to put all data on SSDs nor tolerate OS roots on HDDs. Otherwise a single master ZFS array with datasets for files and zvols or just NFS for VM roots would probably be ideal
[2] Which I hear is considered more reliable than individual SATA passthrough, but has the caveat of being more coarse-grained. I.e. you wouldn't be able to have any non-array disks attached to it due to the VM having exclusive control of all its ports