NAS for Plex use... Again
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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.
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@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:
Looked at the server's spec sheet and it says a max of 8 - 6Tb
So you ordered larger drives than the controller can officially handle? Might be fine, but sometimes, that's an actual limit.
