Hi fellow builders!
I'm looking into fiddeling together a homeserver with Proxmox VE, to run 2 or 3 linux VMs/containers for testing purposes (playing with pi-hole, pfsense etc.) plus maybe a dedicated linux server to play some "Valheim" or "CS:GO" with 4 or 5 friends. Something to play around, you know? No NAS, no HA or anything enterprise grade is needed.
I still own this huge server-box i built with 2 x XEON E5-2670 cpu's on an intel C6xx server board, 64 GB RAM and 750 watts psu, but i guess that is too much for a little testing and have that thing run 24/7 just to host a game from time to time. Guess this setup will eat more juice than necessary for this use case(?)...
One of them low-power micro-pcs with 2 core low power CPUs would surely handle pi-hole and other linux testing just fine, on the other hand don't seem to have enough CPU-Power for the game hosting or even the game hosting _and_ some other VMs at the same time.
I am not sure, which direction to shoot CPU/board-wise. Do you have any suggestions, what i should get to have enough CPU-power for 3-4 parallel VMs (with on of them beeing a game server) and is still efficient enough to run 24/7, possibly at a low noise level? Or should i just fire up that XEON E5-beast and try to get it to not eat all the juice (somehow)? I had an eye on a Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 with XEON E3-122x CPU. That looked quite like something "in between", that could do the job. But i did not buy it yet, because i wasn't sure if it makes sense...
I'm looking into fiddeling together a homeserver with Proxmox VE, to run 2 or 3 linux VMs/containers for testing purposes (playing with pi-hole, pfsense etc.) plus maybe a dedicated linux server to play some "Valheim" or "CS:GO" with 4 or 5 friends. Something to play around, you know? No NAS, no HA or anything enterprise grade is needed.
I still own this huge server-box i built with 2 x XEON E5-2670 cpu's on an intel C6xx server board, 64 GB RAM and 750 watts psu, but i guess that is too much for a little testing and have that thing run 24/7 just to host a game from time to time. Guess this setup will eat more juice than necessary for this use case(?)...
One of them low-power micro-pcs with 2 core low power CPUs would surely handle pi-hole and other linux testing just fine, on the other hand don't seem to have enough CPU-Power for the game hosting or even the game hosting _and_ some other VMs at the same time.
I am not sure, which direction to shoot CPU/board-wise. Do you have any suggestions, what i should get to have enough CPU-power for 3-4 parallel VMs (with on of them beeing a game server) and is still efficient enough to run 24/7, possibly at a low noise level? Or should i just fire up that XEON E5-beast and try to get it to not eat all the juice (somehow)? I had an eye on a Lenovo ThinkServer TS140 with XEON E3-122x CPU. That looked quite like something "in between", that could do the job. But i did not buy it yet, because i wasn't sure if it makes sense...
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