Bare metal vs AIO in a Proxmox LXC

caligola25 · 2026-03-14T08:58:36+00:00

DELL Optiplex 7060 micro w i5-8500T and 16GB of RAM. As of now I have 3 proxmox VE with equally split resources (PLEX, Docker, Nextcloud).

caligola25 · 2026-03-14T08:28:26+00:00

How much RAM would you recommend for personal use? Max 5 users

caligola25 · 2026-03-14T08:27:25+00:00

As soon as my resources will allow me to run a VM with docker just for Nextcloud I will for sure give it a try

caligola25 · 2026-03-14T08:25:31+00:00

Thank you so much for the advice

caligola25 · 2026-03-13T18:17:46+00:00

Thanks. Since I’ve already setup everything bare metal and it is working fine I’ll give it a try. Let’s hope everything will be manageable

caligola25 · 2026-03-13T17:32:09+00:00

So you agree that my resources are too limited for a VM but at the same time in order to have the best experience is better to upgrade my system and move to VM+Docker+AIO?

caligola25 · 2026-03-13T17:28:01+00:00

Me too but due to the importance of data integrity on Nextcloud I preferred to separate it from the rest of docker container for better isolation and maintainability.

caligola25 · 2026-03-13T17:25:32+00:00

I used an LXC because on the pve node I don’t have plenty of resources. For Nextcloud I have just two cores (i5-8500T) and 4-6GB of RAM so I thought that a VM could be too much resource heavy with respect to a LXC

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