ervwalter@alien.topBtoSelf-Hosted Main@selfhosted.forum•Resource splitting doesn't make sense for small homelabsEnglish
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1 year agoIt depends on your goals of course.
Personally, I use Proxmox on a couple machines for a couple reasons:
- It’s way way easier to backup an entire VM than it is to backup a bare metal physical device. And when you back up a VM, because the VM is “virtual hardware” you can (and I have) restore it to the same machine or to brand new hardware easily and it will “just work”. This is especially useful in the case that hardware dies.
- I want high availability. A few things I do in my homelab, I personally concider “critical” to my home happiness. They aren’t really critical, but I don’t want to be without them if I can avoid it. And by having multiple proxmox hosts, I get automatic failover. If one machine dies or crashes, the VMs automatically start up on the other machine.
Is that overkill? Yes. But I wouldn’t say it “doesn’t make sense”. It makes sense but just isn’t necessary.
Fudge topping on ice cream isn’t necessary either, but it sure is nice.
I accomplish what you are looking for more or less, but it’s not an appliance–it’s a system of tools that I setup myself and maintain (which I enjoy). But it sounds like you want to avoid doing that.
My solution includes:
This is not at all turnkey and took some time to put together, but I find it to be relatively low ongoing maintenance now that it is setup. And I have pretty good high availability and great rollback/recovery support in the event that something goes sideways with an upgrade or some configuration change I make manually.