Low Power Proxmox home/SMB server

[MaXX99]

Hello All,

I am looking into consolidating some of my machines and hardware into an AIO running Proxmox on top of a bare metal ZFS.
Usage is as follows :

• General file serving + cloud synching
• Streaming & transcoding (1 to 2 streams at a time max.)
• Backup to local NAS + cloud (backblaze)

Virtualisation requirements are quite low, but should at least include following :

• A PfSense instance on a 400 Mbps Internet line running a few VPNs.
• A domoticz Server
• A Linux VM running some image manipulation on 24MP RAW images using GIMP/Darktable/Digikam + remote display
• A Linux VM for general use office apps + remote display
• A few Docker containers
  • 2x Odoo
  • a few MariaDB's
  • Asterisk
  • ZoneMinder (8x 2 to 8 MP security camera's with image analysis)
  • ...

No real heavy loads as you can see but coming from a limited environment, a lot more uses will probably be found over time.

A few requirements:

• rackmount
• future proof (I will not be replacing this machine in the next few years), so enough room for growth on RAM & Storage as those are the areas I expenct to run short of.
• low power but enough grunt to not chuckle either

I had been looking into a C3958/C3858 but they come more expensive than expected honestly. So any suggestions are welcome (either new or a used system).

Thanks a lot !

MaXX

 

[i386]

rackmount
future proof

How much storage do you need now? (and how much do you expect in the next 2years?)
<=12 hdds: supermicro 826
<=16 hdds: supermicro 836
<=24 hdds: supermicro 846

 

[MaXX99]

Hi i386 ....... 12 drives should be more than enough. I now have 5x 4Tb in a R6 setup which is abundant (but my photowork does take up most of the space and is constantly growing idd).