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This might be a bit long but stay with me
I have had a home server of some sort running for many years. Started out with different Linux distributions about 15 years ago, then had a Windows Home Server and liked the drive pooling etc of it. But storage grew and space ran out in the enclosure I had. So built a new on and decided to go back to Linux. I ran Amahi for a while and even contributed making apps for it. But the slow release cycle and issues updating apps made me start to run more and more stuff "outside" of Amahi.
Updating the Linux core and installing some applications conflicted with the Amahi packages and I decided to ditch Amahi and installed Ubuntu server. I had been using Greyhole on Amahi and set that up and ran that on Ubuntu to.
I set up Samba to act as a domain controller for my home and that has been running now for the last five years or so. With time it also came to run Plex, Sickbeard, Couchpotato, sabnzbd+ etc.
This is running on a X5460 in a modded P5QL-E with 8GB ram. Two 1TB drives in sw Raid1 holds the system and 6x2TB are for storage of files.
I now bought a S2600CP2J, two e5 2670 CPUs and 64GB Ram.
Now I'm pondering how I should set this all up. I want to run a Windows server as the domain controller, to get rid of the specifics of having samba handle it. So I'm thinking of running a Windows server as a VM.
Should I migrate my current setup and install KVM to run the Windows server and other thigs I come up with (like development servers etc) or would it be better to install a very light weight vm server (esxi, small Linux install with KVM or similar), and then setup the kind of setup my current server runs in a VM on top of that, a Windows server as a second VM etc? Greyhole will be ditched and I'm looking into mergerfs and Snapraid. I want the option to easily add new drives but not loose all the pictures of the kids if a drive fail.
I'm looking into buying an external JBOD enclosure with 10x3TB disks to connect to the server to expand storage.
Any input into the "right" way to setup my new home server would be highly appreciated.
Not sure if this is the best place of the forum to post this in. Feel free to move it if it fits better in another section.
This might be a bit long but stay with me
I have had a home server of some sort running for many years. Started out with different Linux distributions about 15 years ago, then had a Windows Home Server and liked the drive pooling etc of it. But storage grew and space ran out in the enclosure I had. So built a new on and decided to go back to Linux. I ran Amahi for a while and even contributed making apps for it. But the slow release cycle and issues updating apps made me start to run more and more stuff "outside" of Amahi.
Updating the Linux core and installing some applications conflicted with the Amahi packages and I decided to ditch Amahi and installed Ubuntu server. I had been using Greyhole on Amahi and set that up and ran that on Ubuntu to.
I set up Samba to act as a domain controller for my home and that has been running now for the last five years or so. With time it also came to run Plex, Sickbeard, Couchpotato, sabnzbd+ etc.
This is running on a X5460 in a modded P5QL-E with 8GB ram. Two 1TB drives in sw Raid1 holds the system and 6x2TB are for storage of files.
I now bought a S2600CP2J, two e5 2670 CPUs and 64GB Ram.
Now I'm pondering how I should set this all up. I want to run a Windows server as the domain controller, to get rid of the specifics of having samba handle it. So I'm thinking of running a Windows server as a VM.
Should I migrate my current setup and install KVM to run the Windows server and other thigs I come up with (like development servers etc) or would it be better to install a very light weight vm server (esxi, small Linux install with KVM or similar), and then setup the kind of setup my current server runs in a VM on top of that, a Windows server as a second VM etc? Greyhole will be ditched and I'm looking into mergerfs and Snapraid. I want the option to easily add new drives but not loose all the pictures of the kids if a drive fail.
I'm looking into buying an external JBOD enclosure with 10x3TB disks to connect to the server to expand storage.
Any input into the "right" way to setup my new home server would be highly appreciated.
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