$100 Virtualization PC: How I'm Using Proxmox at Home
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Proxmox is a linux-based virtualization environment... and it's awesome. It can run on minimal (or in this case, old) hardware. Here's what I'm using for it:
First, get proxmox: www.proxmox.com/
Then get a computer... I got a Dell Optiplex 9020 like this: www.ebay.com/itm/294370593100
OR maybe a bigger one: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from...
Then I got an Intel i7 4790s: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from...
You can also upgrade your DDR3, just make sure you don't get server memory (no ECC ram here).
Let me know what you think.
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I went to a local PC repair shop and asked if they had any old hardware around that was cheap. They offered me a laptop with a i5 3320m and 16gb of DDR3 but the screen was non-functional and the battery held no charge. The machine had a vga output port and the original power brick and he showed that the system would run when hooked to external monitor and the power brick. $50 and it was mine. I removed the motherboard from the laptop chassis, mounted it inside the drawer of my wooden desk and cut holes in the sides of the drawer to mount 4 140mm fans. It is now my file server, my video streamer, and my cloud storage for all my mobile devices. The best part is that the power brick powering this thing is only 80w and it seems it usually runs very cool and almost silent even with the large fans since the air flows quite freely through the large drawer. (the fans are powered by a separate power supply as the laptop motherboard did not have any additional fan headers other than the ones designed for the cpu fan)
I have done similar before installing it into a drawer. Better option was to install it into a whatever wooden tray or plastic tray, whatever... than place that into a drawer. For easier transport in future. Kind of like building the entire thing into a motherboard box or something.
An interesting take on a filing cabinet xd
Would love to see a process tutorial. Sounds dope
Very nice and easy approach. Although I'm a little afraid of the power consumption of that laptop.
i wish there were a pc case type product for this@@xxgg
Dude you convinced me to buy a 9800 GX2 about 15 years ago. And i just found you again whilst looking for proxmox content. You are a legend sir
I have an old Dell optiplex running proxmox for all my containers. Combined with a Synology Nas it's all I could need for my home network. I run Plex, Minecraft, kubernetes, home assistant and other stuff. The Synology holds all the backups so I can roll any container back as needed. It's worked flawlessly for years.
😁 Thank you for not peeling out and leaving me in a raunchy cloud at the starting line. I'm just starting out (no coding, and semi-basic knowledge.), and the videos in which you reference are just beyond my "needs". I understand the importance of staying up to date with ever-advancing tech, but A LARGE PORTION of us don't mind being a little behind the wave front because it allows for a budget-friendly entry point (upgrading as needed, or budget/knowledge allows.). I was actually looking at the 9020-9040 (but considering a Lenovo ThinkCentre M710S, your thoughts?) for a headless home server (maybe renting it out later as a dedicated.) build, but get lost with hardware (compatibilities, upgradable limits, etc.). Anyways, just wanted to thank you for keeping us little fish in mind.
As a note for anyone getting these old desktops. IF you're planning on adding hardware, you MAY have to get a new PSU as well. The one I got from my office a number of years ago only had enough power lines to connect the things that were already in it. The GPU was low-profile and there wasn't even a line to power a GPU if it wasn't.
If you use CT containers. You be amazed how much you can run.
I used an i7 3770. I know docker is big but you can't beat setting stuff up yourself. Once your headerless you can jam even more in
I have a dual socket 2011-3 with two 2699v3s and 192GB of RAM. I run two gaming VMs with individual SSD and HDD and GPU's passed through. I have a Windows 2019 DC running and TrueNas scale that's running a hand full of things. There's roughly 24TB in this thing. It's pretty gnarly.
I was using a similar like Machine for a while with Proxmox and various VMs, but it was too expensive for me in Power-Consumption. I reduced by changing the machine the Consumption from ~120 Watt to 15 Watt. Now i use a very old Asus Notebook (without Monitor) i found on Garbage. It has an AMD A4, enough to run some VMs. My monthly Current-Bill ist down from ~45 € to ~3€. In Germany the bill for Current is very expensive. I think i found a balanced solution between the needed CPU-Power and Cost-Efficiency. 🙂 Thanks for your Video ❤ Dark Mode looks nice! 😀
you may want 2 nas but upgrade path for this system is to build another sep cluster and run backups to a couple places - the other cluster/nas and also offsite
some people will say you should consolidate but running 10 boxes is better way to go - redundancy and you can reduce power req with sbc/arm - the lower power 4th get quad is a good choice - also using older 'broken' laptops works, you can add pikvm to a hdmi switch and have lites out management to all cluster nodes - good feature
Definitely looking forward to pihole video; I have yet to install it.
LOVE Proxmox, had my own Dell Optiplex 9020 proxmox server for the past year and I'm planning to utilize Proxmox clustering capabilities by adding 2 more Dell Optiplexes :D
Glad to see another person who loves using Foobar2000 for music! Great video.
I'm thinking of picking up an HP Z820 workstation because I have always liked those machines. They are built like tanks. In my last job as a research organic chemist, we used them to run $5ook nmr spectrometers. If I can also load a halfway decent graphics card, it could also double as a gaming platform. They have huge RAM capacity and dual Zeon CPUs, add 4 hard drives and if it has a RAID controller, set it up as a server as well. Still thinking about that or just building a dedicated computer from scratch. If I had more space in my office, I would set up a Dell PowerEdge r730 or r740 server with an enterprise networking system to keep it secure. As you can see, I have a lot of dreams, lol.
Next step, set up a LXC on there with docker and you can spin up all sorts of services instead of one VM per. And you can do it *real* lightweight per container, using docker images built on os’s like alpine.
When I discovered LXC, total game changer
@@chadmarkley I tried lxc for openvpn server didn’t worked out lots of blockers
After setting up Docker in LXC I realised how little I actually needed VMs, there are SO many containers for services that would be their own OS or a package only available on a specific OS
Quick tip for the Optiplex 3010, 7010, and 9010 models. They can actually run the Intel Xeon E3-1230 (4c/8t @ 3.2ghz). Costs around $30.
Notes on this:
The 3010 only has 2 ram slots, while the 7010 has 4. So if RAM capacity is a factor look for a cheap 7010 with a crappy i3 and swap it to the E3-1230.
I have not been able to confirm ECC support.
The Intel Xeon E3-1230 does not have integrated graphics. Not a problem for a headless server once its running, but bare it in mind.
I have a 3010 that I am going to swap a 7010 motherboard into. I will test ecc support when I get the parts.
And, how about the monthly bill? The core with T code is 35 Watt, while normally 65 watt or more.
If, you use solar Panel, so it doesn't matter.
I'm still arguing between beelink GK55 (J4125) or lower specs, with 3020/3050 or dell or hp powerdesk/elitedesk at the same price in my country, around $200 USD.
With ProxMox at the base, I'll use openwrt x86 or opnsense, pihole or Adguard home, grafana or any monitoring, would be easy for J4125, at least my gen2 could bring them up now. But, in the long run, the electricity bill will not haunt me every month
@@Anuitu2u As for power I can test my setup. Also with the CPUs there are sandy bridge (32nm) and Ivy bridge (22nm). I have a few CPUs that I could test (i5 2390t, i5 2500s, i5 3470, e3 1230 v2).
or HP 800 G1 - can handle i7-4770 and 32GB ram, can cost as little as 60$
@@Teknickel_ftw follow up?
New to your channel. I am definitely a new subscriber looking forward to watching more of your videos
If you want ideas, you could try setting up a camera surveillance system. It might take specialized hardware but it looks like a fun project I would like to do
It occurs to me that I have enough extra parts to build an extra AM4 PC and I want to put it in a beige 00's shell.
No idea what I'm going to do with it if I ever get around to building it but I'll keep this video in mind.
I use an UpBoard for my home server. Ubuntu desktop, serves..me well! It runs Nextcloud, Emby, a torrent downloader, basic NAS with a 4Tb USB drive & also a WinXP virtual machine, for a Freelancer Server (great game). My setup doesn't use a hypervisor, like Proxmox, it should. However, with a small x86 SBC, weekly data snapshots, are working well, for me.
Game servers are a other thing you should cover. Linux GSM (Game Server Manager) is excellent, especially for old shooters, like Unreal Tournament and Quake.
Oh boy are you in trouble! Now we know what you really look like with that lighting faux pas! 🙂. Just found you today. I think I'm gonna be enjoying more of your content. All the best!
Thanks for the tips here! Those old OptiPlex machines are still quite capable today, and I'll definitely keep my eyes out for one. I'm currently running a hand-built TrueNAS NAS box that's literally pieced together from scrap parts (i5-2310, second hand MSI H55 motherboard, Dell Dimension 2400 case.) I'm also in the process of repurposing an old Dell Optiplex 780 SFF box into a dedicated pfSense router, as I firmly believe in having dedicated hardware for routing and switching. Ideally, I'd also like to have a VM host for everything else I'd like to run.
So far, I've been looking to repurpose my old Z77 i7 4770k gaming PC into said VM host, as it already has 32 GB of RAM and figured it would easily have the CPU power needed to host several VMs. The problem is that it may be a bit too power hungry to make much sense for my needs, especially with an RX 580 still installed. I was hoping to find a VM host solution that would allow for proper GPU passthrough, so the card would be utilized for dedicated server game hosting, or the occasional render project if my main rig was tied up with something. All I could find was references to GPU partitioning with Linux, and the Proxmox documentation wasn't much help either.
I was gunna ask about the power usage
I run an exact same i7 4770 non K and rx 580 gaming pc which is rarely use and have turned it into a Batocera and Windows 10 in dual mode with Steam Big Picture as the front end for the Windows. The thing doubles down as all the consoles till the Ps3 era and Switch along with a steam big picture console experience thanks to writing a simple bat script to autostart it on windows boot.
For my daily use I got a optiplex mini 3050 which is super silent, runs on a laptop brick and came with a i5 7400T and 16GB DDR4 ram,1tb slow a** 5400rpm wd black 2.5". Got it for 122$ from a local guy. Amazon resellers are selling these refurbished models with 8gig and 500gb HDD for 150-200$ here in India. Slapped in a 500gb m.2 nvme and that thing doubles down as my daily use with super low power usage as well as home server (thanks to the 1TB HDD for cheap storage) when I'm not using it as a desktop since the power consumption is negligible. HWmonitor shows 11-15W max till date for package power consumption. Installed Virtual box and currently running an Ubuntu headless 20.04 with pi-hole and setting up a home assistant server,openvn,nextcloud and a few other self hosting services! And since it supports dual display, I can configure my vms on the fly through VB on the second monitor and don't need to turn it into a proxmox or an ESXi machine yet. Can't ask for more tbh!
I installed Docker on my Proxmox server and now I have the best of both worlds. Great stuff.
Hiemdall and Bitwarden are also a MUST! Set'm up as containers.
Great video, thank you. Just wondering, how is Proxmox dealing with physical and virtual cores -say the Intel Core i7-6700 CPU has 4 cores and 8 threads; what is Proxmox seeing on this? Any ideas?
Thank you so much the other day I was going back through all my old favorites and old CZcams likes to find out the name of the server software I was wanting to install and I could not remember it for the life of me anyways thanks to this video you put out I remember the name proxmox so now I can hopefully get back to basics with Linux and have a proxmox machine with multiple virtual machines that run my daily data tasks suck as my media server Im running on my network and my smart home hub for my led lights and my smart weather station
Hey thats what I did!! I had Discount Electronics build a super fast dell optiplex for about $100 by selecting a wide range of individual options, but don't forget to mention that the Dell PC needs a display monitor port adapter. it's a $1.65+tax +shipping from Walmart don't go spending $30 bucks on one.
hhhhmmmm, Perfect timing for this video! Got an old Lenovo 50-50 (i5-4460, 12GB) for free recently and would be ideal for this type of set up. Will be very curious to see the Pi-Hole set up too. Was originally thinking to make it a multi-boot (it has win10 home currently, but not for long!), but now I'm thinking to run any other systems I need on Proxmox instead.
Bake a backup server / point with VEEAM. You can even get veeam to backup to a shared USB drive over the network. You can do this with windows or Linux.
This is amazing!
Hey man, i have some old hardware laying around. I7-4790k, 32GB DDR3 2600 RAM, RX 580, 2x 2TB Hard drives and a Z97 G1 Sniper Board. Do you think, this would be good hardware to run a server?
I got to get around to setuping up similar things on my NAS.
If anyone use ProxMox 7.1, and a core 2 duo proc or older models, I advice you to switch up to ProxMox 7.2 With kernel 5.15. In my case, I often get "kernel panic" SWIOTLB
After upgrade, it seems no kernel panic anymore.
But, couple days ago, I decided to scrap this machine (Dell M1210 with ProxMox inside), to give my son an Android X86 V8 32 bit.
Finally reverted back to what worked.
Oh shit, Tek Sydicate is still around. I haven't seen you for years.
I have been buying 9020 sff machines for years for replacement computers when I come across customers with early winows 7 machines. I even put Windows 11 on the last couple that I set up. Install an ssd and for business and non gaming home use, there is no perceivable speed difference between these and a brand new 500-700 desktop.
I am currently going down the same road but with Synology. Backing up the computer and phones + music / movies / tv shows / audiobooks on the go on mobile and the last thing to add are my security cameras to it. Can Proxmox handle storing security camera footage?
Proxmox is just the virtualisation platform. You would then choose either a Linux distro to run as a container or full VM, or you could run a Windows VM on there. For just one server running just camera storage, I'd probably consider just installing a Linux distro directly on the hardware and not virtualising anything.
Docker: PiHole, JDownloader2 (download box with web UI supporting captchas), OpenSpeedTest (local network speed testing, very handy for wifi troubleshooting especially) - those 3 are my always go-to
on top of that, TrueNas and/or NextCloud - which I don't need yet, using real Synology for data,
and speaking of hardcore VMs, definitely Windows 11 (Proxmox 7 does support virtual TPM) and MacOS Monterey (preconfigured OpenCore bootloader for Proxmox available)
@TzzzSmk. Have you been able to get iCloud, iMessage and App store to work in your MacOS Monterey VM?
If you can, try playing with docker. Its less resourse intensive than running multiple VMs.
I'm new to servers but my ultimate set up would be a proxmox server running a Nas a pxe server and something to automate backups and pxe os installs to let the server act as a full backup system to allow for the clients connected to it to be for lack of a better word abused in any way the user can and return to a known good state with little to no data loss even if the client hardware changes basically physically sandboxing the client's in the event of a catastrophic failure. Network security and routing on separate barebones hardware.
Definitely getting analysis paralysis on which Optiplex to choose, anyone know if the OptiPlex 5055 supports Ryzen 3000 series?
How much power does this system use?
How about an HA video with a Prox instance in one of the cloud providers for easy recovery (eg home full power outage).
Gonna try it out proxmox. Got a old server desktop from work by IT generosity built in with a i7 930 12 gb of ddr3 and a spicy gtx 470. Its running headless ubuntu just fine along with docker and minecraft papermc. But to have a browser and running multiple instances, ya got me interested on tackling it!
How is the power usage?
A. Awesome! I found your video after I converted a HP Elite Desk into a PROXMOX server, already upgraded CPU to an 4 core 8 thread I7 3770, upgrading ram to 32G soon
B. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! for the proxmox dark theme...SO much nicer now
C. Once I get the PCI (not pcix dual gig nic in) I will be setting up an OPNsense for my network, right now have a dell running pfsense but why have two machines running right?
D. I have also found that running a debian container uses MUCH less system resources than a standard VM, so setting up and running the pihole/unbound server on the container works much lighter than in a VM
E. Don't forget to install the qemu-guest-agent on your VM's, it helps alot with the processing and ethernet control and whatnot
F. Docker can also run inside a VM or container ;)
G. Oh and if you have your gcow drives on an SSD, make sure you install and run log2ram, this way it doesn't constantly write to the SSD and wear it out pre-maturely
What does gcow drives mean?
combine this with xeon 1265l v1 or v2 and you have 4/8threads to play with many of the chipsets support vt-d so pfsense with pass through the 2-4 port intel nic card
I have one question though... Why are you having two pi-hole instances?
Just curious -- why's the purpose of having 2 separate DNS (virtual) servers?
TrueNAS for a file server. Throw in a RX6400 single slot low profile card and pass it through to a VM for your own cloud gaming machine.
i think my optiplex is way too old for this, its plenty for my cnc machine though :)
luckily i had plenty of spare RPi boards for pi holes :)
pi hole video sounds interesting, i'm sure i missed some stuff when i set mine up
Nextcloud is another great thing you can run on something like this (replacement for dropbox)
Get any cheap AM4 motherboard with video output. Get cheap RAM sans heatspreaders from G.Skill or TeamGroup, and a used Athlon 200GE/300GE/3000G. Grab any old case with an included PSU, as long as it won't catch fire, and salvage an old mechanical drive (you can get a SATA SSD later if you need the I/O throughput, and a better PSU as well). This is only a little bit more than the $100, with optional costs later to improve performance.
i just got 3 HP z230 on offerup for $`00 total, i wish they were full towers instead of the slims because i dont have any half height cards. i am using these for the same basic purposes as you. thanks for making the video, im in portland as well.
Most of these things can run headless docker containers on a single Linux vm or host. Portainer is a nice frontend for it
Oh, it support hardware passthrough. The VM can use your graphic card. Even run Mac and windows in separate monitor, side by side.
Can you do a video on creating a Windows 7 or 10 VM? Im quite new to the VM world. I followed you pihole video and it was great
Another benefit is easy snapshots for any OS :)
These will take Xeons easily too the variants of this generation that end in a 5 gave the graphics on the chip also. The Xeon E3-1245 v3 is similar spec to the i7 he used and frequently ~$10 less. Also you can modify the bios and boot from an nvme pcie adapter card. Also Also because it is PCIE 3.0 you can use the common "IT mode HBA cards" that are popular in the homelab/homeserver community.
What is your use case that you decided to run two instances of Pi-Hole instead of just one?
I lucked out at work and found a Dell XE2 SFF with a dual 2.5" caddy already installed. The vendor and the dept. director said it was antiquated tech for what they need and I was like "4th gen is antiquated technology?" Came with an i5 4670 🤘 and 8g of RAM. I kept the i5 of course and went with 16gb of RAM for my Hyper-V server. Like you said, its silent, SMALL!!, T and S sku CPU's sip power, and although it doesn't have very many PCIe slots you can make it count with only 2. Get a 4 banger gigabit nic card and you are off to the races. I also bought a NVme and SATA M.2 combo card for the 4x wired slot so now I have a total of 4 drives in one small PC. (Keep in mind this box will not boot from M.2 SATA nor NVMe.) I use the SATA connector from my MOBO to the card. NVMe does show in Windows and I use that as a VHD disk for super fast VM's. Two 2.5" 4tb HDD's for my NAS VM. One con I will give it is high work load times. I run a VPN server VM as well for my mom's business. When everyone is connected the CPU and NIC heat the box us considerable. My next mod is to put an 80mm fan hole right about where the quad NICs heat sink is and reverse the flow of air on the front fan.
Also please don't down yourself on what other's think my dude. Your content is awesome and informative. No fluff, no jumping frames style editing w/ every sentence, no corny jokes, and no overly used Linus jokes. You appeal to the people. Normal guys like me that don't have X amount of dolllars to build "The Worlds Fastest Web Browsing PC" with 24 cores and 1TB of RAM (Linus actually built a 10 core pc for his daughter who was 6 at the time..smh). The community will love you because you are the community or better yet you represent the community.
Also a neat trick with these devices is the 12.7mm optical bay caddy. This will allow you to run two disks in the special caddy and one disk in place of the optical drive bay. $6 on eBay or Amazon. Also look into the LGA 1150 Xeon E3 12XX v3 for these devices. SKU 1230 and up let you run 4C and 8T like the i7 variants. Plenty of dedicated half height gpu's on ebay for cheap as well.
can you rdp to the vms from a different computer within your home network even though your host/main server only has 1 nic? am having trouble since i installed fedora server instead of proxmox on a 1 liter pc
I'm aiming for pi hole, home assistant, file server and Plex on my box but need to learn how to get started!
i used to run vms on my asus eee netbook, a 4th or 5th gen will SLAM
So I noticed you've got the Sony Xperia 1 III. That's the phone I got. I had to have one with a headphone jack, top end specs, and an sd card slot, and NO other phone manufacturer offered that anymore except Sony, so I got it and I love it. I REALLY hope Sony continues to offer this with their phones. I'd rather pay for a better product with a premium experience, than get a Samsung (which would still be very nice) and not have loads of the features I want.
Lmao please dont buy a samsung my s22 feels like the apple logo peeled off
The A02s was fun but samsung locked it down too much same with the a03s
I miss the server monkey days but I also enjoy the write code times I’m currently living in.
Good video.
Ima try to do this on my hp laptop ! If there's a video I can make a home server
I am running OMV6 in my athlon 200ge mini server. 8GB ram. is there a way, if it's even possible, to run proxmox in it without taking omv6?
ok i get using proxmox but can i go to another room say my kids where there is a small dell wyse 3040 can i pxe boot to window 10/11 vm and use it like a normal desktop. i want to have my servers out back and have thin clints in each room. some needing gaming compat (proxmox server install on a gaming pc clusted with over servers) please help good sir. or would i need something else.
I am looking at making a dedicated server for gaming with something like this.
Looking at refurbed dell optiplex's
Can you make a full tutorial for n00bs please. Need some pointers!
What application is that on Android as a upnp client?
I have a optiplex with a quad i5 in it. Plex server! 😊 Been on Linux for 7 years now. It's happened to me twice....destroying xorg (Ubuntu). Happens when you finagle with none proprietary GPU drivers.
I'll certainly be considering doing this with my Dell R210 II that I picked up for about £50. It has a Xeon E3-1230v2 (basically i7 3770) and 8GB ECC DDR3. This server is pretty much an OptiPlex 7010 with a bunch of extras such as remote management and ECC RAM.
Forgot you lived here in PDX. Remembered after seeing the local CL listings haha
I gotta get rid of those monitors lol
collab with craft computing? portland meetup?
i use a dell optiplex 7010 with 32gb of ram and a core I7 3770 at 3.40ghz with a nvidia gtx1050ti for gaming and it works fine lol even with windows 11 installed moded
Are you paying for prox ? They charge per processor
If not please share
Hi am loving all the videos and was wondering if someone can help me am trying to do raid 5 on Linux server with 4hdds but everytime finish raid setup and restart it not there. I have tried 7 times now and pulling my hair out
This all sounds great but I only understood about 45% of it. I have owned a WHS years ago lately I've just used windows 10 as my server. I want to take it to the next step. Sadly I'm still looking for a video that will walk me through this while explaining each step and each part does.
Private backup box like Google Drive, Dropbox etc maybe? Than all your devices can connect to.
I use my nas for that, but you could put next cloud or something on here
Because of Win 11's 8th gen requirement, the price of 7th gen and under has really dropped. I recommend the I5-6500 systems because they are very cheap but that processor and up has better graphics.
Ton of stuff you can do. Jitsi server for personal end-to-end encrypted video chatting. Rocket-chat for your own personal chat. DDclient for Dynamic DNS enabled with your registrar, if they support it. You don't need a NAS like TrueNAS because you already have ZFS support and can make an SMB directly with a VM and then have a NextCloud server as a personal drive. PCI pass-trough is going to be a hit or miss on that system, like adding a GPU for each stand-alone system and connect peripherals to the same desk and multiple PCs can run under the same system. I'd recommend making at least 2 network interfaces definitions, because I usually make machines which I don't want them to connect to a bridge connection(main router) and only have a proxy exposed which handles everything, also more secure. Man, I can go on and on... have fun!
My comment probably got deleted because I accidentally wrote a product name with a dot and took it like a link... sorry!
Funny I was thinking the same way. There cheap servers out there. Then just use them with rasberry as thin clients.
Whoa, I had no idea Richmond from IT CROWD had a CZcams account. 🤣
Why would you need to run more then 1 pihole?
dude i dont know what your saying but you listen to metal and have board games. liked subscribed
My homeserver runs a truenas, gameservers(mc), whatever vm's i want
I would do this and run pi hole and looking into a nas solution for home
no ECC ?
Yeah, I love proxmox, but the desktop experience is not complete. The graphics, the sound, the pass-through doesn't always works fine, latency with mouse, Bluetooth, etc. For services? It's great, but I don't think it replaces a fully desktop experience at all
One thing to be careful of is some of these do not play nice with NICs. I have a 3010 that I was going to install proxmox and pfsense on but it would disable 1 channel of memory when the NIC was installed.
Do you need dual channel RAM in your home server built on a budget?
That only gives me 1 working ram slot and for the use case i wanted to use it for yea I need more ram.
After some research I have found all you need to do is tape 2 pins on the PCI card and it works perfectly.
@@Teknickel_ftw if this not working or unstable, you can use USB Ethernet. In my country an USB and a decent NIC got the same price. It just 10/100 though, and I don't need more.
@@Anuitu2u I need a dual gigabit card at a minimum on top of the integrated one. Right now I have 400mb internet, soon it will be 1gb. Personally I want to stay away from USB NICs they can over heat and sometimes even drop out.
That's weird.
I ran a 7010 SFF for years with a dual Intel NIC passed through to OPNsense. Jammed 4 8GB sticks of RAM in the thing.
Finally retired it, saw a good eBay deal on a dual-socket Xeon tower (came with a single slow 6-core) with 4 hotswap drive bays already filled with 4TB sketchy drives. Even with 3 drives having signs of failure it was a good deal. Gives me a reason to stress test SnapRAID...
So, i have a Truenas server running, on an i5-4570k/16g/64gb ssd boot all i use it for is personal data storage, and a PLEX server for music and movies....i am using another system i3-4420/4gb/16gb ssd boot for a PFsense router just to "protect" the server....Can i just use the Truenas server with a VM of Pfsense? instead of another hardware device?
You can, but you need to take care with the network stuff to ensure you don't accidentally hook your proxmox host directly to the internet. Not difficult. Just need to pay attention to what each NIC is configured to do.
Funny enough I actually also used Foobar with UPNP in a windows 7 vm as well. I ended up switching to navidrome in a linux vm since I didn't want a full windows 7 VM running with only that service.
You can run Navidrome in a CT container. Less overhead it runs in 200mb if ram the entire thing
@@salaciouscreations4323 Yeah that's what I do now
Do you know if navidrome supports vgm and similar native video game soundtrack formats? That's the main reason I'm using foobar for this. I use finamp for my normal music and foobar for the game soundtracks.
@@teksyndicate I don't know about vgm. I just use it for MP3 as it requires nothing to run. If I need to convert a file I use fileflows. As it allows me an entire transcoding server for video and audio and images. Just sits there waiting to convert then move to my Nas once finished.
Upgrading it with an low end amd graphics card, will potentially unlock the ability to run mac OS on proxmox, wonder how that will go😮💨
Actually i’m doing that, on an old Optiplex 990, runing MacOS Ventura, its amazing… 🥹
I have a 7 year old amd fx laptop with 4 gb of ram. For some reason proxmox don't play, instead I went with Ubuntu LXD, run everything in containers. All have their internal bridge ip and wan ip. More command line but has forced me to learn basic stuff and understand how a netplan yaml file should be written.
Saving to get other refurbed old laptops to figure out how to get lxd containers to become HA.
Kinda biased towards refurbed laptops cause they are their own ups.
wow man your cool
Do you use an iPhone or android? I’ve been watching your channel since I was a kid man. Since 2012!! I have to know 😭😭😭
Android... Got a Sony Xperia because it has a headphone jack and no notch
@@teksyndicate thanks man! Have a nice day!!! 💪🤝
Thanks for making this! FYI you can build a very powerful VM machine using Chinese dual socket x99 very Inexpensively. I use mine to…
Back up my old computers as Virtual Machines
Run Mac OS as a virtual machine
Remote operate work computers using VPN
I was considering this, I couldnt find any information on SR-IOV//IOMMU on the chinese boards though. Any suggestions? I do not want to run anything DDR3 ram, so X99 ftw, preferabbly 2x E5-2618Lv4 or v3
A lot of people underestimate the value of older (and less powerful computers). I got a bunch of desktops for super cheap on offerup, like im not even joking 3 computers and a PC case for 100$, and there were two i5-4590s and 1 i7-4770, about 40GB of RAM total, two gtx 1050s, a gt 740 and some low end amd graphics card, JUST GO ON OFFERUP YALL!! LOOK FOR THE LIQUIDATION LISTINGS!! Thank me later ;)
People also dramatically overestimate what they need in a computer too. Especially for kids to play Minecraft or watch CZcams videos.
You can still (just) get away with 4GB of RAM for casual web browsing, yet some people think their grandma will need 16GB to see Facebook. We had customers insist they needed a top end i7 system (before the i9s were a thing) to run a basic small business accounting package.
Most non-gaming users will be fine with hardware up to around 10 years old at this point... Stick a basic SSD in and it doesn't even seem slow.
That's because of generational hype and unreasonable levels of FOMO. You can do a lot with older and way cheaper tech.
NextCloud with Collabora enabled
Home assistant inside Proxmox :-)
(if you are into automation)