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   @neilmartin83

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   Great video! Careful with ZFS – it’s awesome for setups with many many drives but its cache will eat your RAM! For a setup like yours I’d prefer an LVM based RAID 1 mirror for the 2 x 8TB HDDs and use the 1TB SSD as a writeback lv-cache. Then you get a ton of storage for your VMs and other data, with redundancy plus the speed boost of having the SSD sit in front. You could set the SSD cache mode to writethrough if you’re worried about data loss caused by sudden SSD or power failure and still benefit from increased SSD read speeds but not write speeds.

   I’m running Proxmox on a much smaller and cheaper scale – an old Mac Mini with 250gb SSD caching to a single 2TB HDD as an LVM. I back it all up to an external USB HDD using Proxmox Backup Server – I’d recommend checking that out as a fantastic backup solution for your VMs and data! It does the works!

   Enjoy the rabbit hole that is Proxmox!!! 😂

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   @rjerez

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   I been thinking of creating my own 2U server to run as my NAS replacement and also home assistant machine. Interesting that both you and Jeff just recently did this, must be a sign from the universe.

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   @Borgin_Hood

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   Have you considered using something like TrueNAS to configure RAID at the virtual level instead of the hypervisor level? Personally I find it a bit easier to work with than PXMX and it has some extra features.

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   @miketarbox1190

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   Good for you. This is your project, everyone can piss off. Good video BTW

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   @FlaxTheSeedOne

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   Instead of creating folders, you can also create datasets which allow you more flexebility in terms of settign qotas and creating and sending snapshots

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   @maxime_vhw

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   6:24 your image descibes a type 2 hypervisor (ex. virtualbox) which runs on an OS.
   But proxmox is a type 1, runs straight on the hardware. There is no OS. Proxmox is the OS

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   @mstrickk1

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   Don't blindly buy bundled parts. Not only does Amazon get mobo/ram combos wrong, even Newegg has done it.

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   @lordgandalf22

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   1. please uip that rack you dont come back from a holiday finding a pipe burst and youre servers took a swim. 2.i still would use a storage server even if you still use the hdds in youre server for storage. so that you have a wa y to store in multiple locations and tbh drive servers are made to store loads of disks instead of trusting on one or two drives.

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   @rainadun4085

   October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

   you can do alot of this stuff by buying used servers off of Ebay for half the price

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    @andymok7945

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    I use Proxmox and it works very well. I personally am sick of hearing about containers. I have enough on my plate and learning docker is not on my list. That is just me. I ran HA on Proxmox for over 4 years and worked great. I run mqtt, node-red esphome and zigbee2mqtt each in their own LXC on Proxmox. They are a container, but none of the hair pulling setup of docker. Maybe raising the rack off the floor in case a a flood at least.

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    @BACRULES

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    wow this is what i am think of doing, get a nice rack:P and get it all in one place, my plan in to run HA and audio, and survalince, so bakup is a must
    great video

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    @jacobp7289

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    As server OS you could also have chosen unraid. It´s much easier/nicer than Proxmox and Truenas to use and very straight forward. Also supports VM´s and containers. However OS´ss are a religion for many…

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    @InSaiyan-Shinobi

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    By any chance is it possible to make NordVPN run in portainer? Possible

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14. 

    @wwolfram33

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Do you prefer VM's or Docker at this point? Any interesting differences you can share?

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    @andersyuran7725

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Why not use proxmox own terminal for the helper scripts? That is what it is for.

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    @TheXalloumi

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Hello Alan, i am enjoying your videos a lot. thanks a lot, i have learned a lot from you!
    i would like to ask something, Will you make a video of how you setup frigate (in docker) in proxmox with coral tpu passthrough? As you were using frigate before for motion detection, i suppose that you are still using it.

    Thanks

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    @woolfy02

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Very cool setup! Looking forward to build a similar setup eventually. I have been looking into the old Dell servers as an option but, idk. I'll have to see how much all of this would cost me now. Very helpful video though.

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    @zzAx3zz

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Fantastic video, was looking into setting up a home server with Proxmox as well, still in the planning phase. However, one of the more interesting issues I've come across in my research has been Frigate playing nice with Proxmox. Have seen quite a few testimonials of people having issues with latency and TPU passthrough, especially when running in a VM. Have you ironed out how you'll be incorporating Frigate?

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    @youhannasmousa7344

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    nice video. I had also the home Assistant Countainer and I want to chenge to the OS version. How should I backup and restore all data on th OS version. And I am using current a LAN coordinator not a usb doungle. I would be happy, if you can help me. Thanks

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20. 

    @Jefflanoue

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Can I ask which camera brand do you use, what works good with HA?

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    @adrianmarcinkowski8072

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Are you going to run frigate on that Proxmox installation? Or will you look for another solution?

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22. 

    @garethde-witt6433

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Nothing dumber than a smart home, everything is hackable and when it goes down your well and truly stuffed.

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23. 

    @tellisecfive9410

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    🤣😅😅😅At the end of the day, i really don't give shit. subscribed

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    @ThePplzChampion

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Why don't you mount the rack onto the wall? keeps the water out when there is a flood.

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25. 

    @picoherbie9987

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Prixmox runs on bare metal, not your computers operating system.

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    @daveforrester61

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Loving this whole series of videos. I'm 7 months into my home automation journey with Home Assistant. Started on a RPi4, but due to exponential growth, and just for the heck of saying "I did a thing" in Jeremy Clarkson stylee, I move my HA into a Proxmox VM on a Lenovo mini pc this weekend 😮. I did the "was that it?!" thing when I was done too. I was planning on moving my Zigbee2mqtt into a separate VM, but after hearing your comment about other VMs in the same hard drive eating up all the space and preventing Proxmox from running, I'm not do sure now. I might have to invest in another hard drive 🤔. Keep up the good work 👏

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    @alphasixtyfive

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    You might want to add a temp/humidity sensor (Aqara one should do just fine) to keep an eye on the humidity in the laundry room. I know it spikes a great deal in mine which is not ideal for hardware. Turning on a dehumidifier during those spikes could potentially help.

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    @bopal93

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    I will be soon building a proxmox server. Quick question: Why choose a desktop CPU instead of a server grade CPU?

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    @sidremey

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Hi Can you share the hardware spec of the new server, maybe with a PCPartPicker list? I'd be interested in knowing how it handles Frigate and what the power consumption is. Thanks,

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    @photosbyms

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    If it makes you feel any better my setup is adjacent to a water softener, water heater tank, and the entire home piping manifold. That could change eventually but it is quite cold down there.

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    @usmangojra

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    With thos set up, how much of ur 1TB of nvm is consumed which u used specifically for proxmox?

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32. 

    @mph8759

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Haha love the comment around how much you care about peoples opinions 😂

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33. 

    @lidbergtech

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Does this mean that you are running HomeAssistantOS with supervisor instead of your previous docker setup?

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34. 

    @panzerofthelake1623

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    4:57 i notice you happen to be using what looks like a generic PSU, isnt that bad for something like this 24/7 rackmount your building?

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    @fixedtech

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    I've just followed along with this but using the latest version of proxmox and HA but don't have a raid setup just a m.2 and a 1tb 2.5 ssd to store the containers. When I look at the summary of the VM the ram usage is sitting at about 85-90% when sitting on the startup screen of HA. Any ideas why this is so high?
    Additionally now that I have restored my HA backup none of the addons will run! 🙁 I was using a raspberry pi before and the RAM usage is sitting at 90% usage

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    @uses0ap

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Since you are now using HAOS instead of the docker variant, are you limited to HAOS add-on's only? Or can you continue to add docker containers via proxmox? (i.e. piehole). Regarding MQTT, would that be done via proxmox container or HAOS add-on?

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    @ichilvers

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Any Pro's and Con's for running Home Assistant as a OS Installed VM or Docker Container?

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    @andymok7945

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    I remember I watched many video and lots of reading when deciding on whether to use Proxmox or XCP-ng. For what I was looking to do, Proxmox was the clear choice. First ran it on a brick PC that had 4 NICs on it. It ran Home Assistant and then a few more things. It ran very well for about 4 years, then I needed to do more, but I could bot added or even put in a bigger stick of RAM. Last year I built my new Proxmox system and used the AMD Ryzen 9 5750X. Do it once and do it right. With 16 cores/32 threads, I had room to spin up some real world stuff. I have 64GB of RAM and can go up to 128GB if/when the need arises. Mirrored NVMe drives for the Proxmox boot and SSDs for the VM and ISO storage. Any big storage goes to my TrueNAS setup and it is a serious setup. All pools are RaidZ2. My media Pool is the biggest and has all my music as FLAC and all my TV show, movies as MKV in full resolution, no compression. Not looking forward to replacing all the 14TB, 12TB and 10TB drives in the future as they start to fail and such. I have an 18U rack and my Proxmox is in a Chenbro 4U rack mount chassis. Quite inexpensive for a rack mount case. I wanted the room for full height cards and good cooler. I have been using the Cooler Master units for some time and do a great job for not much money. Stock coolers are OK, but not comparison. The Cooler Master does a much better job. Looking forward to getting Frigate installed soon. I got my Coral TPU (USB-C) and now must learn docker. I run HA on the HA Blue device, but all other services (mqtt, ESPHome, Node-Red, Zigbee2mqtt and so on are in LXC or VMs. Yes, a great bunch of scripts and I have used two of them so far. Will be donating to him and a few others open-source projects that I use.

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    @JustThinkingAboutIt-i5k

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    I thought the laundry comment/ network cabinet was hilarious, keep it coming and stand your ground!

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    @SvartAdamSolander

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Nice video series!
    I've never used Proxmox but 1 TB just for the system itself without VM's feels a lot. What more is stored on that SSD now a days?

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    @tomshirvo1

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    I only subscribed when you said you are a massive nerd… I can relate.

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    @johnadams1976

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Bought a DL360 gen9 rack server with 64GB RAM, dual CPU for £105 off eBay!!! Amazing prices. Popped a few drives in, set up raid 5. Happy days!! A million miles from my pi 3 with SD card! LOL

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    @E.M.A

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Just uhm fyi dont build ontop of the anyi static bag the motherbaord came in (its meant to be antistatic on the inside not out) it can shock the mother board and short it out. if you want a good antistatic workspace put it on tje box that works fine

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    @ishimarumakot0

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    Hi mate, good afternoon.
    I am in the process of converting from a RasPi to a proxmox hack but got within a question:
    Should I add mqtt and zigbee2mqtt to the home assistant as an add-on or run as a separete container in the proxmox?
    My setup will be only HA and FRIGATE
    Thanks!

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    @rudyjelen1534

    October 27, 2024 at 9:09 am

    I've just watched till 1:36 and I have to admit that I don't know you,never before seen any of your films but I already love you approach.

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