I’m trying to plot out a home server build, and I’d like to do it in a rackmount form factor. Use case will likely be Proxmox running a NAS VM and some media services. For the NAS piece, I was thinking an enclosure with hot swap bays would be nice. Anyone have recommendations on the case/enclosure itself? I’ve seen this Rosewill one on Newegg (https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rsv-l4412u-black/p/N82E16811147330), but struggling to find many other options.
I don’t have recommendations for a case but I would advise you to go with True NAS scale as it also makes virtual machines and is more open / less annoying than Proxmox.
https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/scaletutorials/virtualization/creatingmanagingvmsscale/
That’s interesting. I had thought of doing TrueNAS Scale as a VM running in Proxmox, but you’re suggesting have TrueNAS itself be the bare-metal hypervisor? What do you find annoying about Proxmox?
Running TrueNAS Scale bare metal is usually more convenient and it gets the job done. Proxmox is nice (to some extent) but if you really just want a NAS and a bunch of random VMs for some extra stuff TrueNAS Scale is easier and faster.
The TrueNAS Scale base system is closer to Debian thus easier to manage and customize. Proxmox also brings a lot of extra stuff that you might not need.
Even in corporate environments Proxmox now sits on a awkward position because of Canonical’s LXD (runs both containers and VMs). Their LXD Web UI is better at container and VM management than Proxmox and its real open-source. For high performance ESXi trumps Proxmox in all always, and for cheap setups LXD is enough. I even go as far as believing that in a few years most Proxmox users will be be using LXD.
TrueNAS Scale also has the ability to run Docker/Kubernetes directly (less overhead) and has a nice UI to manage them.
I run TrueNAS SCALE in a proxmox VM. I only use promox as a hypervisor because TrueNAS SCALE can’t migrate VMs to another node when running on uncertified hardware, aka has no High Available failover abilities (which proxmox also only has when using ZFS or a network storage). Otherwise, you can only configure TrueNAS via the WebGUI, settings made with the cli are not persistent where as with Proxmox you have to really love the cli because you can’t do most things via the WebGUI. Proxmox also is quite buggy and often breaks itself, if a backup job hangs you have to physically pull the plug of thr hypervisor to kill it for e.g.