Hello together,
so I’ve just registered here because I’ve the feeling there are quite some users that could give me reasonable input on this.
I’m playing with the though of getting my own personal homeserver for quite some time. It should be noted that I’m working in the field of consultation in the machine building area. Therefore I would like to test a few things in some of the VMs (even if I likely won’t do any real work stuff there). I had a dedicated servers at a hoster for a few years with Proxmox buth a different vm structure.
I already have a relatively specific setup in mind, but before that I want to talk a bit about the planned purpose of this server.
What should be running on it:
Currently, I have the following initial build in mind.
Remark: I’m living in Germany, just as a note.
Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-H12SSL-CT-O
CPU: AMD Epyc 7443P, 24C/48T
RAM: 8x Samsung RDIMM 64GB, DDR4-3200, CL22-22-22, reg ECC
Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro TR4
System SSD: 2x Samsung OEM Datacenter SSD PM9A3 1.92TB, M.; in mirror
Data SSD: 2x Samsung OEM Datacenter SSD PM9A3 3.84TB, M.2; in mirror
HDD Pool (later): 7x 14TB+ in RaidZ2 with an SSD cache drive of yet undefined size (Toshiba Enterprise likely)
PSU: Corsair Professional Series 2022 HX1000i - redundant won’t be meaningful in the forseeable feature due to existing installation, a UPS is planned however
Open for thoughts on the above.
Some relevant topics from my side currently:
EDIT1: Changed 4x RAM for octachannel (512GB); Also changed the Samsung consumer NVME SSDs for PM9A3 Enterprise, also both as mirrors
so I’ve just registered here because I’ve the feeling there are quite some users that could give me reasonable input on this.
I’m playing with the though of getting my own personal homeserver for quite some time. It should be noted that I’m working in the field of consultation in the machine building area. Therefore I would like to test a few things in some of the VMs (even if I likely won’t do any real work stuff there). I had a dedicated servers at a hoster for a few years with Proxmox buth a different vm structure.
I already have a relatively specific setup in mind, but before that I want to talk a bit about the planned purpose of this server.
What should be running on it:
- As should be obvious from the thread title, the hypervisor I would like to use is likely going to be Proxmox (already have experience with it although only to a limited extent and non-professional).
Likely own VMs - NextCloud - always running
- PhotoPrism
- EcoDms, which is basically a document archiving system - always running
- Bitwarden/Vaultwarden - always running
- PiHole (probably a separate device however)
- Syncthing (for some selected stuff only)
- Portainer
- Heimdall (probably) or Homer
- KitchenOwl - recipe/food tracking, etc.
- Jellyfin (for movies/music)
- Guacamole
- A Windows VM for general development stuff (VisualStudio, IntelliJ) - 32GB RAM, 8 cores - only on request and not expected to be needed with more than one of the PLC VMs below at the same time.
- A Windows VM for Siemens TIA Portal - based on my personal experience this alone would require 8 threads and 32GB RAM. However, this is only started when needed.
- A Windows VM for Allen Bradley - similar requirements as for Siemens, also only started on request. Might be necessary to run both VMs from Siemens and AB at the same time.
- Another Windows VM for Beckhoff PLC - requirements less than the other two (4 threads, 16GB should suffice), started on request
- A Windows VM for all misc stuff related to machinery (usual smaller configuration programs for different kind of equipment and more lightweight PLC software)
Currently, I have the following initial build in mind.
Remark: I’m living in Germany, just as a note.
Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-H12SSL-CT-O
CPU: AMD Epyc 7443P, 24C/48T
RAM: 8x Samsung RDIMM 64GB, DDR4-3200, CL22-22-22, reg ECC
Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro TR4
System SSD: 2x Samsung OEM Datacenter SSD PM9A3 1.92TB, M.; in mirror
Data SSD: 2x Samsung OEM Datacenter SSD PM9A3 3.84TB, M.2; in mirror
HDD Pool (later): 7x 14TB+ in RaidZ2 with an SSD cache drive of yet undefined size (Toshiba Enterprise likely)
PSU: Corsair Professional Series 2022 HX1000i - redundant won’t be meaningful in the forseeable feature due to existing installation, a UPS is planned however
Open for thoughts on the above.
Some relevant topics from my side currently:
- Epyc vs Threadripper Pro - assuming first one is the better choice as I’m NOT planning to virtualize gaming on this system (I intend to have a separate one for that).
- Epyc 4th gen - CPUs available, but apparently no mainboards yet? Also, is the performance gain really worth it?
EDIT1: Changed 4x RAM for octachannel (512GB); Also changed the Samsung consumer NVME SSDs for PM9A3 Enterprise, also both as mirrors
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