Just looking for a little seasoned advice here.
I'm building a server for the house to do a few things:
1- Host files, NAS type stuff for use in a Plex mediaserver setup
2- Backup files, from both local OSX laptops and from a remote datacenter (vSphere)
3- Host virtual machines, Plex as noted above but also a few linux and windows lab type setups including a passthrough gpu linux VM.
The hardware I have is one of the gigabyte GA-7PESH2 dual CPU setups with 200gb of RDIMMs and 24TB of spinning disk with the onboard LSISAS2008 controller.
I know vSphere fairly well and what it is capable of doing, it seems like a natural fit for doing a replication between the remote vSphere host and this host, I have this setup now with the RAID controller fronting the disks as a RAID10 set to vSphere.
Would the Proxmox setup have many/any advantages? I was thinking that maybe JBOD disks on the controller to an ZFS volume might give me more performance than the built-in HBA, and maybe there's quite a bit more flexibility when it comes to the host OS like installing tools such as wireguard, etc. Maybe its a better idea to have an iSCSI target on the NFS and just use that as a replication point for the remove vSphere host.
Am I overlooking anything obvious here?
I'm building a server for the house to do a few things:
1- Host files, NAS type stuff for use in a Plex mediaserver setup
2- Backup files, from both local OSX laptops and from a remote datacenter (vSphere)
3- Host virtual machines, Plex as noted above but also a few linux and windows lab type setups including a passthrough gpu linux VM.
The hardware I have is one of the gigabyte GA-7PESH2 dual CPU setups with 200gb of RDIMMs and 24TB of spinning disk with the onboard LSISAS2008 controller.
I know vSphere fairly well and what it is capable of doing, it seems like a natural fit for doing a replication between the remote vSphere host and this host, I have this setup now with the RAID controller fronting the disks as a RAID10 set to vSphere.
Would the Proxmox setup have many/any advantages? I was thinking that maybe JBOD disks on the controller to an ZFS volume might give me more performance than the built-in HBA, and maybe there's quite a bit more flexibility when it comes to the host OS like installing tools such as wireguard, etc. Maybe its a better idea to have an iSCSI target on the NFS and just use that as a replication point for the remove vSphere host.
Am I overlooking anything obvious here?