Sanity check for Proxmox + Plex setup
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im_not_dan · 2023-12-03 23:25

Hey all,

Just purchased a little Lenovo M720q and an external 8TB HDD to start
off.

Here is my plan:
* Install Proxmox on the PC storage
* Create a VM and use docker-compose for Plex, *arrs, etc.
* Create a VM for my download clients, and putting this entire VM
behind a VPN
* Create a VM/LXC, mount the external drive to it so I can set up a
NFS/SMB or something (still researching this) so the other
VMs/containers will all have access to it

I am not sure with file systems to use for the Proxmox host and
external storage. Been seeing people recommend EXT4, NTFS, ZFS

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yoganerdYVR · 2023-12-04 07:05

Most of those can be installed on containers without touching the
host. No need for allocation of resources to a VM.
For file sharing, mount nfs to the host then bind mount to containers.

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bkx · 2023-12-05 02:45

Yeah.  Just keep it simple with an Ubuntu Server install and Docker
containers

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im_not_dan · 2023-12-05 03:04

That is most likely going to be my plan moving forward.
Looks like a lot of people are recommending containers for everything,
and we have ttek's scripts to streamline everything.
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

For file sharing with my external drive, it looks like I can just
directly mount it to the Proxmox host and pass that through my
containers.

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im_not_dan · 2023-12-05 03:04

Thanks, will do!
I will try to use LXC containers for now, if I run into issue, I can
just fall back to Docker