Subj : Re: proxmox server hardware
To   : Granville Errol Casey, Jr
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Wed Aug 21 2024 16:24:38

On 21 Aug 2024, Granville Errol Casey, Jr said the following...
 
 GE> What type of computer/servers are you using for proxmox server
 GE> configurations?
 GE> 
 GE> I have not used proxmox. Wondering how much it would cost to invest to
 GE> get a reasonable setup for homelab use? Would 32G of Ram be a reasonable
 GE> start for RAM? What size disk ?

Hi Granville,

32GB ram isn't too much if you intend on making VM's for certain projects. If you give each VM 4GB and 1 CPU core, that would allow you to have approx 8 VM's minus the fact that the host OS needs some resources too (assuming you have 32GB ram AND 8 core
cpu). Each vm you'd probably want to allocate at least 20GB-32GB to be safe, so at least 256GB of dedicated storage just for the VM's will be needed also.

I have had a lot of joy working with Dell PowerEdge R series rackmounted servers both at home and at work. At home I have a couple of the Dell R620's (2x 16 core cpu, 320GB ram) that are in a proxmox cluster, and at work in my rack I have a Dell R820 (2x 32 core, 428GB ram) and these are great work horses.

You can pick up old Dell R620's on eBay fairly reasonably nowadays, and could build yourself a good rack for not too much, I like Dell's as the iDRAC is imho the best remote maintenance system on servers I've used. Dell's are robust, and you could do a lot worse.

If you don't need so much power, you could use a couple Intel NUCs perhaps, it would depend on what you wish to use the home-lab for, and believe me, once you start making VM's for whatever, more ideas come and soon you run out of cpu or ram and need more =)

Sounds like you have fun times ahead, I love having a home-lab, and you will too.


Hope this helps =)

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