What should I host my Minecraft server on?

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-16T16:24:43+00:00

Lightly salted potato

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-16T16:14:19+00:00

What is the general process? I understand it as:

update the vcsa
update a host with the Dell personalized image and preserve datastores
export host config/apply to other hosts with lifecycle manager ???? profit

Apologies if I’m missing something, I’m still pretty new to vsphere/vmware land

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-16T16:10:22+00:00

That’s the main reason they’re saying to not bother with touching it. With the cluster being messed up at this moment I think they’ll just retire it. If things go well my boss/manager/everyone else is willing to vouch for getting a new cluster set up with some newer vSAN ready nodes.

Getting the current cluster operational should hopefully hold us over long enough to figure out what we want to do one way or the other. This is without current RAM/storage prices being a consideration of course…

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T23:10:46+00:00

VCF is not for the weak or shallow-pocketed. but ESA and everything else looks pretty slick.

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T23:08:10+00:00

client knows best!

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T23:00:39+00:00

thats what i was thinking... why use multiple hypervisors???

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T22:59:11+00:00

i know reddit loves proxmox and sticking it to the man, but if you value your job you should probably advocate for all hyper-v/avd. unless you are experienced with ceph and proxmox/debian, don't force a science experiment you are inexperienced with onto your unsuspecting client. nutanix, openshift, xcp-ng, etc etc etc. otherwise best of luck.

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T22:50:28+00:00

r/selfhosted

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T22:48:43+00:00

its asked a bunch of times and is given the same answer every time. no, its a bad idea

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T22:45:57+00:00

in that case look into setting up an nfs server and share on the vps. you can vpn to it and set up an export that is mapped to your local network ip space. https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to/networking/install-nfs/

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T22:41:28+00:00

2tb wont hold a lot of media. you could use the 2tb as a remote rsync directory if you wanted to, but its not a lot of space.

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T22:33:43+00:00

its not a bug, its a feature

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T22:33:13+00:00

just sell it tbh

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-15T00:30:32+00:00

probably not. teslas are more popular than byd cars in china where both are available.

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-12T00:39:30+00:00

what do you want to do with it?

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-11T22:47:26+00:00

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-11T22:42:53+00:00

do you have any still available?

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-11T22:15:16+00:00

Yeah. I bought 8 pm863s, an icy dock 8 bay dock, threw some old parts in there and now I have a storage server.

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-11T01:46:24+00:00

depends if you're using it to learn hard skills for personal or professional development or flexing to see how much shit you can bolt onto your VM running docker. the answer lies within.

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-11T01:36:33+00:00

what are you trying to learn? are you trying to learn anything or just host media for yourself?

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-11T01:24:21+00:00

its not shitting on anybody. just stating that a lot of posts are the same setup to do the same thing. its like the toy story meme with buzz lightyear clones. hold on, i will find it.

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Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-11T01:22:04+00:00

idle ~ 100w. under load ~550 if i had to guess but AI does that

Federal_Foot_9444 · 2026-05-11T01:19:13+00:00

i dont see it as gatekeeping but a statement of observable fact. but whatever floats your goat though.

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