In the next ~6 months I’m going to entirely overhaul my setup. Today I have a NUC6i3 running Home Assistant OS, and a NUC8i7 running OpenMediaVault with all the usual suspects via Docker.

I want to upgrade hardware significantly, partially because I’d like to bring in some local LLM. Nothing crazy, 1-8B models hitting 50tps would make me happy. But even that is going to mean a beefy machine compared to today, which will be nice for everything else too of course.

I’m still all over the place on hardware, part of what I’m trying to decide is whether to go with a single machine for everything or keep them separate.

Idea 1 is a beefy machine and Proxmox with HA in a VM, OMV or TrueNAS in another, and maybe a 3rd straight Debian to separate all the Docker stuff. But I don’t know if I want to add the complexity.

Idea 2 would be beefy machine for straight OMV/TrueNAS and run most stuff there, and then just move HA over to the existing i7 for more breathing room (mostly for Frigate, which could also separate to other machine I guess).

I hear a lot of great things about Proxmox, but I’m not sold that it’s worth the new complexity for me. And keeping HA (which is “critical” compared to everything else) separated feels like a smart choice. But keeping it on aging hardware diminishes that anyway, so I don’t know.

Just wanting to hear various opinions I guess.

  • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Agreed. Proxmox is not worth the complexity. Install truenas, you can put all the apps on that and you can have home assistant in VM. All you need is one machine. I actually have this setup. I only installed Proxmox on other machine to test it and to install OpenWRT and a bunch of networking software on that. If I feel confident, I will use this as my new router, but that’s long way to go. Oh, and by the way, Truenas in virtual machine is not recommended. I originally thought I will also install Truenas in Proxmox, but after reading plenty resources and things about pass-through I finally decided that I was stick to the recommendation and not use proxmox with truenas. I do not regret the decision.