Intro After having my Synology volume crash out of the blue I came to some realizations that having a fragmented setup that evolved with me is unwise and creates many different points of failure.
Hi John, I'm John, I have been using proxmox in an IT setting for over 10 years, and just wanted to chime in... I am in agreement with the title of your article. But some of your content is a little demeaning to the product. The intention of Proxmox was a enterprise grade hypervisor for IT professionals. As a VMWare admin it would be important to have intermediate skills in the underlying OS (Linux), same would be true for HyperV (M$), so Proxmox users should be familiar with Linux servers and enterprise networks, or they should take a crash course on those before diving in to proxmox. An enterprise server generally would not use DHCP, since they are catering to "enterprise", that is how they build it. The best option if you want to harmonize with DHCP at home would be to set a static ip on your server and set a DHCP lease on your router so there are no conflicts. You could call that an industry best practice, I could not slight them for following that practice, the Proxmox network stack is actually very simple, you could make a couple backups of the interfaces file with different configs and easily quickly swap network locations if you are often moving around subnets. Also the people on reddit are not representatives of Proxmox at all - if you look those people up on the proxmox forums, you wont find them, so I would not bash the product for the practices of a 3rd party forum... Now as an enterprise sys-admin, I find myself in the same boat as you as far as home storage (its not a lab), and I wonder from your article what you ended up with for a final solution for home NAS, you seem to indicate OMV, but it was not very clear what all you ended up accomplishing, if you shared your final design and what apps or containers you used, this article would be pretty sweet. What are you doing for RAID/disk management, backups, any cloud backup functionality? For instance I am hunting a replacement for Google Photos, and Synology DSM offers a photo app with public album sharing, I could run DSM on Proxmox using xpenology, I wonder if you do any work with photo albums on Proxmox?
Hi John, I'm John, I have been using proxmox in an IT setting for over 10 years, and just wanted to chime in... I am in agreement with the title of your article. But some of your content is a little demeaning to the product. The intention of Proxmox was a enterprise grade hypervisor for IT professionals. As a VMWare admin it would be important to have intermediate skills in the underlying OS (Linux), same would be true for HyperV (M$), so Proxmox users should be familiar with Linux servers and enterprise networks, or they should take a crash course on those before diving in to proxmox. An enterprise server generally would not use DHCP, since they are catering to "enterprise", that is how they build it. The best option if you want to harmonize with DHCP at home would be to set a static ip on your server and set a DHCP lease on your router so there are no conflicts. You could call that an industry best practice, I could not slight them for following that practice, the Proxmox network stack is actually very simple, you could make a couple backups of the interfaces file with different configs and easily quickly swap network locations if you are often moving around subnets. Also the people on reddit are not representatives of Proxmox at all - if you look those people up on the proxmox forums, you wont find them, so I would not bash the product for the practices of a 3rd party forum... Now as an enterprise sys-admin, I find myself in the same boat as you as far as home storage (its not a lab), and I wonder from your article what you ended up with for a final solution for home NAS, you seem to indicate OMV, but it was not very clear what all you ended up accomplishing, if you shared your final design and what apps or containers you used, this article would be pretty sweet. What are you doing for RAID/disk management, backups, any cloud backup functionality? For instance I am hunting a replacement for Google Photos, and Synology DSM offers a photo app with public album sharing, I could run DSM on Proxmox using xpenology, I wonder if you do any work with photo albums on Proxmox?