Subj : proxmox server hardware
To   : Granville Errol Casey, Jr
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Aug 21 2024 21:03:33

  Re: proxmox server hardware
  By: Granville Errol Casey, Jr to All on Wed Aug 21 2024 09:48 am

 > I have not used proxmox. Wondering how much it would cost to invest to get a
 > reasonable setup for homelab use? Would 32G of Ram be a reasonable start for
 > RAM? What size disk ?


Depends on what you want to use it for. I have my BBS, a small AD test 
environment, a handful of LXC containers and an Ubuntu VM acting as a Docker 
host running Portainer.

All of this is on an old Thinkpad with a mobile 6th gen i7 and, first, 16GB of 
RAM, then 24, and now 32. 

I put a 2TB SSD in it to host the VMs and have backups and ISO images on an NFS 














































































































share coming from a Synology NAS.

What I love about Proxmox is its wide range of hardware support (it's just 
Debian, QEMU and KVM) and lowresource requirements. I barely hit the wall with 
my tiny little lab. You can go pretty small on memory and disk when you choose 
to, and running apps in LXC containers saves even more on resources.

I think the ultimate little lab would 3 USFF desktops with 8 or better yet 16GB 














































































































of RAM set up in a cluster. Proxmox can move VMs dynamically, even moving VMs 
off of a failed cluster member.
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