NAS for Plex use... Again
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@JaredBusch I have Hyper-V at home with Nginx, Nextcloud, Bookstack, PiHole, and Plex. Don't have a colo close enough. My internet service with 1 static is cheaper than the cost of colo.
I haven't had a good enough reason to move away from Hyper-V yet. I always contemplate it. I've had a spare server with KVM in my lab and it was great and light on resources.
What made you switch from Hyper-V?
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I do have my Unifi controller on Vultr and use it for "lab" if I need a public IP for various stuff. I plan on setting up a FreePBX instance for testing but haven't yet.
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@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@JaredBusch I have Hyper-V at home with Nginx, Nextcloud, Bookstack, PiHole, and Plex. Don't have a colo close enough. My internet service with 1 static is cheaper than the cost of colo.
I haven't had a good enough reason to move away from Hyper-V yet. I always contemplate it. I've had a spare server with KVM in my lab and it was great and light on resources.
What made you switch from Hyper-V?
I went from Hyper-V (Desktop), Fedora KVM (Desktop,R710) and now using Proxmox (R710). Proxmox is by far the most convenient one for my home environment.
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@black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
@JaredBusch I have Hyper-V at home with Nginx, Nextcloud, Bookstack, PiHole, and Plex. Don't have a colo close enough. My internet service with 1 static is cheaper than the cost of colo.
I haven't had a good enough reason to move away from Hyper-V yet. I always contemplate it. I've had a spare server with KVM in my lab and it was great and light on resources.
What made you switch from Hyper-V?
I went from Hyper-V (Desktop), Fedora KVM (Desktop,R710) and now using Proxmox (R710). Proxmox is by far the most convenient one for my home environment.
Same here, more or less. Same conclusion.
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@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
My idea is:
Option 1:
Set up a new raid10 volume on my host with my spare drive bays.
Install a new VM (Fedora 32 server) with 16 Tb of storage and Plex on that same VM.
This way, the data never leaves the host and has maximum efficiency.
OROption 2:
Set up a new raid10 volume on my host with my spare drive bays.
Install a new VM (Fedora 32 server) as a "NAS" with NFS shares for content.
Point existing Plex Vm at the new NAS.
Data would traverse network between 2 hosts unless Plex was migrated to other host.Yes, why wouldn't you do the bolded part - which is what other people are now calling option 3 LOL
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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.
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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
