NAS for Plex use...  Again
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 @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. Because it sucked. But.... 
  
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 @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. This is why I do not use it. 
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 @JaredBusch said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. This is why I do not use it. This is something MS is just totally failing at with Hyper-V. 
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 KVM with Cockpit could be perfect if it were a bit more polished. 
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 @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: KVM with Cockpit could be perfect if it were a bit more polished. It's getting there. But ProxMox has just so much more at this point. 
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 @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI. You can install pwsh on linux and then use powershell to your nano hyper-v. 
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 @Grey I'll have to give it a try. Could also run W10 as a VM on Fedora Workstation... 
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 @Grey said in NAS for Plex use... Again: You can install pwsh on linux and then use powershell to your nano hyper-v. While an option I very much doubt that many are going to want to do this as their only means of management 
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 @DustinB3403 Yes, Hyper-V manager works too well not to utilize it. I do use PS though for certain tasks though. 
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 @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop I use kvm to manage my windows vm on desktop, so you dont have to use HV unless you just want to 
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 @DustinB3403 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @Grey said in NAS for Plex use... Again: You can install pwsh on linux and then use powershell to your nano hyper-v. While an option I very much doubt that many are going to want to do this as their only means of management Then they should have rethought using Hyper-V, right? They need to think through the whole picture, not just part of it. 
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 @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @DustinB3403 Yes, Hyper-V manager works too well not to utilize it. I do use PS though for certain tasks though. Yeah, but not free. Gotta pay for and run a Windows box to use it. Talk about expensive. 
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 @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: KVM with Cockpit could be perfect if it were a bit more polished. Cockpit is developing pretty fast. But only Linux distro that I know who gets the latest stable version is Fedora. 
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 @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI. I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but... Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it. Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page 
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 @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: KVM with Cockpit could be perfect if it were a bit more polished. Cockpit is developing pretty fast. But only Linux distro that I know who gets the latest stable version is Fedora. yeah, I wish that it had broader adoption. 
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 @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI. I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but... Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it. Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Yeah, and we use it. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI. I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but... Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it. Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Yeah, and we use it. Damn, already using the beta version in production? 
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 @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @scottalanmiller said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI. I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but... Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it. Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Yeah, and we use it. Damn, already using the beta version in production? Backups, not the newer backups  
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 @scottalanmiller said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @scottalanmiller said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again: @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again: I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI. I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but... Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it. Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Yeah, and we use it. Damn, already using the beta version in production? Backups, not the newer backups  Are you using ZSTD compression? 
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 Well... I ordered 4 - 8Tb drives for my host to be arriving today. Looked at the server's spec sheet and it says a max of 8 - 6Tb drives for 48 Tb raw. I already have 4 - 4Tb drives. This addition would theoretically "max" out the capacity. Fingers crossed that it will work. I may be able to update the firmware on the LSI card if it throws a fit. 







