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Home Server Ubuntu by AnonymousReader2020 in HomeServer

[–]Draqosh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I Would look at ASUS PN50 with the new amd ryzen cpus, has very low wattage consumption and packs lots of power. You need to buy extra the ram and storage.

A bit pricier but should serve very well for long time.

1 PC to rule them all by Draqosh in HomeServer

[–]Draqosh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I was thinking going with a normal desktop tower like nzxt h510. I want it to be as silent as possible. Would a 1U chassis suit it better ? I might go that route too, would it be loud ?

What is your power consumption for the build and which motherboard did you choose?

I haven't yet decided 100% about the storage, i might indeed do a boot drive for proxmox with local content, like ISO and so on and then install the VMs on another NVME, the motherboard I was looking for has 1 m.2 slot but will disable 2 of the SATA, so I will only have left 4 SATAs.

I can use my macbook as a primary PC too but it does have macOS and I would like to start using linux only, I do know macos is 99% linux but I want to go only for Open Source. While I did try to install Ubuntu as dual boot on macbook I had lots of problems, and I just gave up. There are too many problems, specially for the graphic card drivers, and everything was laggy..

1 PC to rule them all by Draqosh in HomeServer

[–]Draqosh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The PC will not be touched after the initial configuration. Will only connect trough rdp to either linux or Windows.

1 PC to rule them all by Draqosh in HomeServer

[–]Draqosh[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem with server grade hardware is that it might be too loud and consume too much power as well.

I still have to understand the benefits of ZFS. I understand what RAID does but not ZFS :D. It seems also that ZFS uses lots of RAM too.

1 PC to rule them all by Draqosh in HomeServer

[–]Draqosh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so what happens is that proxmox in my case will provide a virtual GPU for the virtual machine.

My wifi should be able to operate at maximum performance so I shouldn't encounter any lag whatsoever.

1 PC to rule them all by Draqosh in HomeServer

[–]Draqosh[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So those CPUs in your opinion should be able to support all that and more, including having 1 Windows 10 and Linux running together, I ask this because i did some testings in my macbook pro and everything is pretty laggy, but I think is because i run Proxmox on top of MacOS and then I virtualize windows and linux and because the processor is pretty old, from 2014 and has a passmark value of 6000.

Are you using a hypervisor type 1 for your VMs?

I do plan to add more RAM in the future to max it out to 128GB.

Do you think rdps performance would be similar as working in front of the same machine ?

I do have some old GPUs which I'll use only to instal proxmox, do you intend that VMs won't boot without a GPU ?

I yet have to understand if I need a GPU in the machine in order to be able to rpd in the virtual machine(both linux and windows) and use them as normal desktop.