Since TrueNAS SCALE now supports instances, is there any point to running on top of Proxmox?
from artifex@piefed.social to homelab@lemmy.ml on 15 Aug 13:59
https://piefed.social/post/1149914

Proxmox uses LXC for containers and KVM for virtualization. TrueNAS SCALE (now) uses LXC for containers and KVM for virtualization. Is there any use-case left where it still makes sense to run SCALE inside of Proxmox, or is it just as good/peformant to have SCALE handle both NAS duties as well as the other things I would normally run in containers and VMs?

Could I, for example, set up a container/VM that needs especially quick I/O or a very fast single-thread CPU process in SCALE and expect the results to be about as good as they would have been in Proxmox, or is there more to it?

#homelab #proxmox #scale #selfhost #truenas

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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org on 15 Aug 14:10 next collapse

Well, I am interested in this, too. Just planning my next home server.

My thoughts so far: Truenas will be one VM, and some other things I might want to run in separate VMs outside of Truenas. I don’t know yet if I can have complete VMs managed by Truenas.

artifex@piefed.social on 15 Aug 14:15 collapse

You can - I currently have a few "real" VMs running along side LXC containers for Linux-based stuff that isn't docker-ized yet, and of course a bunch of individual apps (jellyfin, photoprism, etc.) that come from truenas's library and run in Docker containers natively. So everything seems to be working well, I just wonder if there's something I'm missing out on (FOMO/grass is always greener, etc., etc.)

talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works on 15 Aug 19:29 collapse

If you have a cluster in proxmox it’s probably worth it to keep. I have one for my NAS, one for my webserver, and one for my game server.