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New home server: what hypervisor/OS? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by peregus@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a couple of home server, both with Proxmox as hypervisor, one VM with Ubuntu 22.04 that does just Docker containers, one with Open Media Vault, one with Home Assistant (HA OS) and a couple of Windows VM to do some tests. Since I wanted to move from OMV, right now I see 2 options:

stay with Proxmox and find another NAS OS
use Unraid as NAS and hypervisor

What other option would you suggest?

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[–] denshirenji@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

For the hypervisor I recommend either Proxmox or XCP-ng. XCP-ng is technically a better hypervisor, but I personally use Proxmox because I like the UI.

For the NAS OS, I use and recommend TrueNAS Scale. You can run Docker containers on it. All this being said, I've never used Unsaid so I don't know how they compare.

Out of curiosity, why move from OMV? I was thinking about trying it out for a second NAS.

[–] peregus@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Out of curiosity, why move from OMV? I was thinking about trying it out for a second NAS.

It's probably a problem of not dedicating enough time to learn how it works, but I've installed a couple of time in the past years, but...I don't like it much. It seems complicated to me (still, I probably don't dedicate it enough time).

For the NAS OS, I use and recommend TrueNAS Scale. You can run Docker containers on it

I'll check it, thanks

[–] denshirenji@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your reason to move from OMV is the same as mine for XCP-ng. It is supposed to be a better hypervisor, but I just did not like the UI at all. It doesn't help that you have to host a small VM just to have a webGUI.

[–] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I had to build that small VM from source on a different machine because my XCP-ng install was refusing to set it up. Then I was able to move it over to the XCP-ng machine to self host.

I liked the UI and honestly I like the VM that keeps the web app separate from the hypervisor. But then it started looking like a massive pain to hotplug USB devices to the VMs, so I bounced.

I am trying Incus/LXD right now and enjoying it so far.