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Letās talk storageā¦ When I initially set out to build my Home (mini) Datacenter
one of the first things that went into the Rack was a Storage Server or otherwise
typically called a NAS (Network Attached Storage).
The server I chose was one I originally bought from UnRAID
who unfortunately donāt seem to make the hardware anymore. The chassis was a custom
iStartUSA 4RU chassis that fit my 600m short-depth Rack. It has 10x 3.5ā Hot-Swap
drive bays and 4x Hot-Swap 2.5ā drive bays.
Basically I run a ZFS RAID-Z3 pool on this where all our media is stored
and served from as well as backups (not the only backup, more on this laterā¦).
If anyone can find details on the UnRaid hardware and chassis, reply to this Twt
or reach out to me, it would be nice to actually link to it even if itās only
available through the Internet Archives š¤
Letās talk Hypervisorsā¦ The Hypervisor I choose to run in my Home Datacenter is Proxmox VE ā There are several reasons why I choose this as my platform:
- It is fully 100% open source and based on open source software
- it is easy to use and has a nice GUI if you need that
- It has a Restful JSON API for automating your infra
- It has built-in support for ZFS
The last reason is the killer feature for me, other Hypervisors such as VMWare(for example) make you pay for additional basic storage features. Proxmox just workā¢ š
There are of course other decent Hypervisor platforms you can choose, however your milage may vary (YMMV) š¤
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