I’m running three servers: one for home automation/NVR, one for NAS/media services, and one for network/firewall services.
Does this breakdown look doable based on the hardware? Should the services be ditributed differently for better efficiency?
Server 1 and 3 are already up and running. I just received my NAS, and am trying to decide where to run each service to best take advantage of my hardware.
I’m also considering UnRaid instead of Proxmox for a NAS OS. I just chose Proxmox because I’m familiar with it, and I like the ability to snapshot. I also intend to run Proxmox Backup Server offsite at some point, and I like the PVE/PBS integration.
Any advice would be much appreciated!
I personally would avoid LXC. That seems to be a hot take but in my experience it is better to run docker/podman in a few VMs.
…really? I run most of my services in an LXC, and have for a while without issue.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong then. I run LXC but has always been a much worse experience. Boot times are terrible and the controls that work for VMs don’t work as well for LXC. You also can live transfer which is problematic for me.
I think you’re doing it wrong. LXCs boot almost instantaneously on a hypervisor since they hijack the host kernel, I’d be surprised if my CTs take 5 seconds.
I would agree on the live migration issue but I guess you pick your services accordingly. I have a VM that runs docker and a LXC docker host, and I pick my containers for each accordingly.
How on earth are you getting 5 second boot time with LXC? My containers take around 10 minutes to boot while VMs take a few seconds. Also LXC networking seems to break randomly.
Edit: I went back and figured it out. It was that IPv6 was set to dhcp in Proxmox which caused everything to halt until timeout. I set it to static in Proxmox and now it boots instantly
I have no idea what you have going on, I’ve never seen LXCs take that long, even if I include the time it takes to down the containers and bring them up after a reboot.
What are you using for running them? I just tested my docker LXC and it took 16 seconds from when I typed “reboot” to having a login prompt. And that’s on an ancient R410 server running proxmox.
That is not my experience at all…
Are you running ZFS?
Yes, RAID 10 ZFS with no ARC, 6GB SAS drives.
@possiblylinux127 @ikidd Something sounds wrong there. I exclusively use LXC containers because I loathe docker and my containers boot basically instantly, and the networking is rock-solid.
Not everything plays nice in Docker, and there are plenty of those services that also don’t need a full VM to operate. LXC is great for those edge cases. Otherwise I agree, a few VMs for various Docker stacks is the way to go.
All the services OP has listed run great in docker, excluding Frigate (not tested personally).
True, I noticed that as well. Still, it’s worth moving bare-metal docker installations to VMs. Easier to manage IMO.