I am nearing the end of my lease on me Dedi and have long since chosen to not renew. I am going to self host via collo but to start with only plan on 1 server. Since I do plan over next few years to expand this setup into a cluster I plan to use a hypervisor to allow for HA once able to do so. I am most knowledgeable about Hyper-V and have Licenses but I am not married to this and not sure it would even be correct setup if I did this. What would you as a community recommend. One like but not required would be able to send PCIe lanes to Client VMs as accelerators but not required. Most VMs will be CentOS8 and most of these will have WHM/Cpanel but a few will be others as needed.
Known Choices but open to more
Win19-Core/Hyper-V
CentOS 8/KVM
Proxmox VE- ZFS 2 way delta backups, starting with local storage and add to cluster later?
XCP-ng - Better networking and clustering (Prox) but only 1 way delta backups - no larger then 2tb images.
ESXI - Would be standard
Windows/Centos with VM Workstation (I personally think extremely bad idea)
I have already purchased a the following server and specs but looking for the best setup as my company grows do plan to expand to more servers in colo.
Server Specs
HP DL 325 (New)
Epyc 7402
8 * 32GB ECC 2933
8* 2TB SSD Sata - no HP branded
May buy 2 more drives as OS Dom
iLO Advanced
P408i-a - i may not use depending on raid setups and go to mobo
Colo Specs
iLo
1 U
1 Amp power (208) - I think I will have to upgrade to 2amp
/29
Desired storage minimums
2-3 drive fail protection
raid/equivalent
Raid 10
Raid 6
Z2/Z3
Note Min Spec of primary vm will be
16/32 Core
128GB Ram
4TB storage
3 ips min
CentOS/WHM Cpanel/LiteSpeed Professional
Known Choices but open to more
Win19-Core/Hyper-V
CentOS 8/KVM
Proxmox VE- ZFS 2 way delta backups, starting with local storage and add to cluster later?
XCP-ng - Better networking and clustering (Prox) but only 1 way delta backups - no larger then 2tb images.
ESXI - Would be standard
Windows/Centos with VM Workstation (I personally think extremely bad idea)
I have already purchased a the following server and specs but looking for the best setup as my company grows do plan to expand to more servers in colo.
Server Specs
HP DL 325 (New)
Epyc 7402
8 * 32GB ECC 2933
8* 2TB SSD Sata - no HP branded
May buy 2 more drives as OS Dom
iLO Advanced
P408i-a - i may not use depending on raid setups and go to mobo
Colo Specs
iLo
1 U
1 Amp power (208) - I think I will have to upgrade to 2amp
/29
Desired storage minimums
2-3 drive fail protection
raid/equivalent
Raid 10
Raid 6
Z2/Z3
Note Min Spec of primary vm will be
16/32 Core
128GB Ram
4TB storage
3 ips min
CentOS/WHM Cpanel/LiteSpeed Professional
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