Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
So. Proxmox under the hood is Debian. Virtualization only allow you to stack workloads proxmox has an extra layer of being set up to run containers as well as vms. That can run lean and share resources better. Bet part of this is you can install it on anything you can install Debian on. They even

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I have an i3 with 2 cores and 4 threads running an SSD. Seems like too few resources for Proxmox? Your thoughts? On 2022-10-09 10:29, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 06:50 -0700, keith Miller via PLUG-discuss wrote: Couple of items, I've used Promox for about 4-5

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
On Sun, 2022-10-09 at 06:50 -0700, keith Miller via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Couple of items, I've used Promox for about 4-5 years  now, very nice > hypervisor have had no problems what soever > I current run it on a Dell R-610 with 96Gig of ram and 6TB of HD, hosting 5 > linux servers and

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Nice!! My head is on fire!! I think one of you said you were running a Linux desktop VM. Is it possible to configure one machine to do multiple private VMs for testing and development, a production website VM, and a Desktop VM. Would I be able to attach the Desktop VM to two or more

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Yikes!! Do you run that at home? Thank you for all this info. I see you were at MortarVille. I assume you were FA? I was Aviation Ordnance in the USMC and after I got out I spent 6 years in the AZARNG doing FA - M109. On 2022-10-09 06:50, keith Miller wrote: Couple of items, I've

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread keith Miller via PLUG-discuss
if your gonna play with it, a server can be had DIRT cheap the R-610 I got on amazon for 150.00 32Gig of ram and 2 320Gig drive (Which I upgraded I have another server for more play bought it on craigslist from a guy for 70.00 HP DL360G7, it has 4 2tb drives and 32Gig ram al this mounted in a

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread keith Miller via PLUG-discuss
just an FYI the correct URL is https://geekscove.com would love to see this get used Keith On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 6:50 AM keith Miller wrote: > Couple of items, I've used Promox for about 4-5 years now, very nice > hypervisor have had no problems what soever > I current run it on a Dell R-610

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Think about the contrast. In 1986 I bought my first computer which was a Commodore 64. That was an exciting time in it's own right. Consumer grade computers and there was that business I went into that was using a Commodore 64 to run their business. On 2022-10-09 03:44, Stephen Partington

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread keith Miller via PLUG-discuss
Couple of items, I've used Promox for about 4-5 years now, very nice hypervisor have had no problems what soever I current run it on a Dell R-610 with 96Gig of ram and 6TB of HD, hosting 5 linux servers and desktopsetup with about 8 domains and 1 email server all are Linux based, the mail server

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Indeed! Proxmox has been on of my all time favorite VM solutions. If you dig down into the docs I think you will see why. But there is a ton of digging you can do. On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 9:48 AM wrote: > Very exciting what we are to do with modern hardware. > > > On 2022-10-09 03:43, Stephen

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Very exciting what we are to do with modern hardware. On 2022-10-09 03:43, Stephen Partington wrote: I have run proxmox on Mac minis 4 cores/8 threads and originally 8gm ram. I upgraded ram heavily and stuffed in an ssd to run as a lvm cache to the 5400 1t drive and it performed well as a home

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Dynamic_Memory_Management On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 6:44 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > That mini had only one nic. And I ran about 4 containers and 2 vms just > fine. > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 6:43 AM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> I have run proxmox on Mac minis 4

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
That mini had only one nic. And I ran about 4 containers and 2 vms just fine. On Sun, Oct 9, 2022, 6:43 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > I have run proxmox on Mac minis 4 cores/8 threads and originally 8gm ram. > I upgraded ram heavily and stuffed in an ssd to run as a lvm cache to the > 5400 1t

Re: Proxmox Hypervisor, vCPU, RAM... etc

2022-10-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
I have run proxmox on Mac minis 4 cores/8 threads and originally 8gm ram. I upgraded ram heavily and stuffed in an ssd to run as a lvm cache to the 5400 1t drive and it performed well as a home lab server for years. All the rest is use case recommended for a server. Possibly in production. On