I'll invite others to comment as well since I'm sure there are many views on this. My take is a good hypervisor is the way to go for homelab OS. I use proxmox but there are other options out there. The reason I suggest a hypervisor is because a virtual environment allows you to experiment in so many ways. You can try different operating systems, you can make mistakes and start over, you can separate "production" workloads from experiments, and the list goes on.
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf Yeah I'm leaning towards proxmox. I have looked at TrueNas, Unraid, CasaOS, and Open Media Vault as well. I already have a Asustor NAS for storage. I can't use this for the home lab because it is not powerful enough. So, picking a NAS centric OS for my home lab is not the best idea, if I already have a NAS. Maybe the next one I build. I'm planning on using a MSI Trident 3 PC to host my home lab.
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf it's just for the fun so 3x mini-forum i7. no need performance 🙂 The applications HA are working smoothly. The CEPH recovery is very slow.
Great ideas. Should have linked to previous video in the comments. What do you think is the best OS for hosting a home lab?
I'll invite others to comment as well since I'm sure there are many views on this. My take is a good hypervisor is the way to go for homelab OS. I use proxmox but there are other options out there. The reason I suggest a hypervisor is because a virtual environment allows you to experiment in so many ways. You can try different operating systems, you can make mistakes and start over, you can separate "production" workloads from experiments, and the list goes on.
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf Yeah I'm leaning towards proxmox. I have looked at TrueNas, Unraid, CasaOS, and Open Media Vault as well. I already have a Asustor NAS for storage. I can't use this for the home lab because it is not powerful enough. So, picking a NAS centric OS for my home lab is not the best idea, if I already have a NAS. Maybe the next one I build. I'm planning on using a MSI Trident 3 PC to host my home lab.
HA + CEPH done in my Home lab, next project Kubernetes cluster.
What hardware are you running ceph on? Did you hit any performance issues?
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf it's just for the fun so 3x mini-forum i7. no need performance 🙂 The applications HA are working smoothly. The CEPH recovery is very slow.