Consolidating Server / Services
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peterbata · 2023-12-22 20:39

Hello all. Where do I begin? At the beginning would be a good as place
as any I suppose.

As it stands I host the following services in my homelab. Please bare
with me.

Plex Media Server / Nextcloud / TrueNAS / HestiaCP (Web & Mail Server)
/ Qbittorrent for the odd movie. I would also like to host my Kontakt
libraries via VSL (Vienna Ensemble Pro v.7.x) Will run on the Windows
platform

The above-mentioned services / apps are all running on separate PC's.
They range from Lenovo ThinkServer TS140's / Lenovo ThinkCentre M93's
and one or two clones. Very basic. Minimal memory / minimal storage.

A few days ago I picked up an HP ProLiant ML350P Gen8 256GB memory and
plenty of storage. Obviously, most of you know where I am going with
us. I have toyed a little with

Proxmox, Hyper-V, and have now started fiddling around with VMWare who
by the way have an ESXi image specifically developed for the HP line
of servers. I would really appreciate your input. Your thoughts and
guidance will be greatle appreciated. Forgive me if I have left out a
bunch of details

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LtHizzie · 2023-12-22 23:48

Put Unraid on your bare metal and run all those services in dockers.
Easy & Fast.

If you want to keep these servers seperate and as a VM, look at P2V.
This will help you out. [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-
us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-
us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd)

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peterbata · 2023-12-22 23:54

Thank you for chiming in. Much appreciated. Happy Holidays!

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peterbata · 2023-12-23 00:44

I did have a question. I understand the concept of both disk2vhd and
vmware converter. But how can I convert the linux based machines?