I'm looking to build a Proxmox server to use both with my small company for production and as a lab as well as for personal use as a NAS. I'm want to have local backup but will also back up to the cloud.
Usage work:
Webservers for development with nodejs, apache, wordpress, ruby etc.
Stable web servers for deployment.
Fileserver for hosting work files, both during development and archived.
Trying out different distros and systems and development containers.
Usage home:
Personal file server
Plex server
Game servers (CS:GO and Minecraft)
Possibly remote desktop Linux for the kids (sparely used)
I started by looking at building a NAS and there were quite a few guides on hardware but when I started to look at building a VM machine all guides I could find were suddenly software related. I figure the reason being that hardware will vary massively depending on scenario.
Silence would be nice but is not a priority, size doesn't matter. I would like to keep the budget under €1000 with a max budget of €1500.
I'm quite new to servers as well as VMs, having only played around a bit with Virtualbox on my desktop machine, so my knowledge is limited to what I've found the last couple of days. That's partly why I'm doing this, to learn as much as possible.
Thoughts so far:
HD for file servers:
Seagate Ironwolf ST10000VN0004 256MB 10TB (one to start with, adding another one later for redundancy)
RAM:
While looking at FreeNas the recommendation was 16GB memory with ECC but can't find any similar recommendation for a VM machine so I'm not really sure what to look for. What I've found is:
G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4-3200 C14 DC - 32GB
Mainboard:
Been looking at
Supermicro X11SSM-F
X11SSM-F | Motherboards | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc.
CPU:
Inte-Xeon E3 1230 V6
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1230 v6 (8M Cache, 3.50 GHz) Product Specifications
And with this I'm at budget...
HD for VMs:
No idea what the best use here is so all help is appreciated.
I have a Silver Power SP-SS620M 620W PSU and a temporary case to use. Don't know if that PSU is good enough or not.
Is this a setup that could handle what I propose? Am I asking for to much?
Any thoughts and ideas are very welcome.
Tomas
Usage work:
Webservers for development with nodejs, apache, wordpress, ruby etc.
Stable web servers for deployment.
Fileserver for hosting work files, both during development and archived.
Trying out different distros and systems and development containers.
Usage home:
Personal file server
Plex server
Game servers (CS:GO and Minecraft)
Possibly remote desktop Linux for the kids (sparely used)
I started by looking at building a NAS and there were quite a few guides on hardware but when I started to look at building a VM machine all guides I could find were suddenly software related. I figure the reason being that hardware will vary massively depending on scenario.
Silence would be nice but is not a priority, size doesn't matter. I would like to keep the budget under €1000 with a max budget of €1500.
I'm quite new to servers as well as VMs, having only played around a bit with Virtualbox on my desktop machine, so my knowledge is limited to what I've found the last couple of days. That's partly why I'm doing this, to learn as much as possible.
Thoughts so far:
HD for file servers:
Seagate Ironwolf ST10000VN0004 256MB 10TB (one to start with, adding another one later for redundancy)
RAM:
While looking at FreeNas the recommendation was 16GB memory with ECC but can't find any similar recommendation for a VM machine so I'm not really sure what to look for. What I've found is:
G.Skill RipjawsV DDR4-3200 C14 DC - 32GB
Mainboard:
Been looking at
Supermicro X11SSM-F
X11SSM-F | Motherboards | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc.
CPU:
Inte-Xeon E3 1230 V6
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1230 v6 (8M Cache, 3.50 GHz) Product Specifications
And with this I'm at budget...
HD for VMs:
No idea what the best use here is so all help is appreciated.
I have a Silver Power SP-SS620M 620W PSU and a temporary case to use. Don't know if that PSU is good enough or not.
Is this a setup that could handle what I propose? Am I asking for to much?
Any thoughts and ideas are very welcome.
Tomas