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I have been using proxmox for years. Before that I ran stuff like virtualbox headless, vmware ESX/ESXi, etc. I have never ran a synology though.

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>When I first started using a Synology NAS all those years ago, it was a place to store image files after creating them for work and media files for Plex use. It was never intended to be a home lab, but that's what it morphed into over the years until it tried to run too many things at once and failed at all of them. Building my own server was always part of my road map for home lab experimentation, and it's time. Now the NAS will do what it's supposed to do, store archival files, and the new server will handle the heavy lifting. The only thing slightly surprising to me is that it took so long to realize that my needs had changed and something had to be done about it.

I have been using proxmox for years. Before that I ran stuff like virtualbox headless, vmware ESX/ESXi, etc. I have never ran a synology though. Archive: https://archive.today/bWuZF From the post: >>When I first started using a Synology NAS all those years ago, it was a place to store image files after creating them for work and media files for Plex use. It was never intended to be a home lab, but that's what it morphed into over the years until it tried to run too many things at once and failed at all of them. Building my own server was always part of my road map for home lab experimentation, and it's time. Now the NAS will do what it's supposed to do, store archival files, and the new server will handle the heavy lifting. The only thing slightly surprising to me is that it took so long to realize that my needs had changed and something had to be done about it.

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Yeah, they clearly intend to do PCI passthrough for AI workloads though. Otherwise, why have a $500 graphics card? Plus, its not just for NAS, proxmox is a full virtual environment "enterprise" level. You can do a lot with it.

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When I had to spin up multiple machines for workloads, dev and testing in the enterprise virtualization made sense, all done from your desk. But with a home, they make the gear just big enough to not be easy to hide so you need a closet for the shit. I’d put a 15” flat panel in there and just work there for hardware spin ups.

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I have a 3 node proxmox cluster that uses a TrueNAS server as the backend storage (the nodes have local storage if I have to take down the TrueNAS server though). It lets all of my stuff be HA since I have Home Automation, local DNS, Local PiHole, etc...

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I guess I never saw the need for HA at home. My shit never goes down, if it does, it takes maybe 20 min to deploy another machine from a clone or from a backup. But nothing ever goes down. Seems that’s the case when no one touches it but me.

Like I said in a corporate world, you don’t want to document anything? Great you don’t have to. If it has 100% up time, never goes down, never fails, then why document? Since it will never fail and last so long by the time it has hardware death, it’s time to deploy a new technology. So if you can guarantee that, then no docs are needed.

“We can’t do that.” Right cause too many fucking curry fingers are in the mix.