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    • jmooreJ
      jmoore @brandon220
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      @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

      Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop

      I use kvm to manage my windows vm on desktop, so you dont have to use HV unless you just want to

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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        @DustinB3403 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

        @Grey said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

        You can install pwsh on linux and then use powershell to your nano hyper-v.

        While an option I very much doubt that many are going to want to do this as their only means of management

        Then they should have rethought using Hyper-V, right? They need to think through the whole picture, not just part of it.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @brandon220
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          @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

          @DustinB3403 Yes, Hyper-V manager works too well not to utilize it. I do use PS though for certain tasks though.

          Yeah, but not free. Gotta pay for and run a Windows box to use it. Talk about expensive.

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          • black3dynamiteB
            black3dynamite @brandon220
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            @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

            KVM with Cockpit could be perfect if it were a bit more polished.

            Cockpit is developing pretty fast. But only Linux distro that I know who gets the latest stable version is Fedora.

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            • black3dynamiteB
              black3dynamite @brandon220
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              @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

              I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI.

              I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but...

              Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it.

              Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
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                @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                KVM with Cockpit could be perfect if it were a bit more polished.

                Cockpit is developing pretty fast. But only Linux distro that I know who gets the latest stable version is Fedora.

                yeah, I wish that it had broader adoption.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
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                  @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                  @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                  I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI.

                  I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but...

                  Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it.

                  Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

                  Yeah, and we use it.

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                  • black3dynamiteB
                    black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                    @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                    @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                    I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI.

                    I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but...

                    Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it.

                    Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

                    Yeah, and we use it.

                    Damn, already using the beta version in production?

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
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                      @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                      @scottalanmiller said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                      @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                      @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                      I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI.

                      I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but...

                      Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it.

                      Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

                      Yeah, and we use it.

                      Damn, already using the beta version in production?

                      Backups, not the newer backups 😉

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                      • black3dynamiteB
                        black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                        @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                        @scottalanmiller said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                        @black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                        @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                        I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI.

                        I had Proxmox running in my lab for a while with a few test VMs and it worked great. I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long. I know that is not a valid reason to not use something but...

                        Again, with HV being free and having no issues with it - makes it hard to justify switching, although the web management of Proxmox would be nice. Another advantage of HV is that Veeam works so well with it.

                        Proxmox provides a builtin backup and it got even better now with the beta release of Proxmox Backup Server too. https://pbs.proxmox.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

                        Yeah, and we use it.

                        Damn, already using the beta version in production?

                        Backups, not the newer backups 😉

                        Are you using ZSTD compression?

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                        • brandon220B
                          brandon220
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                          Well... I ordered 4 - 8Tb drives for my host to be arriving today. Looked at the server's spec sheet and it says a max of 8 - 6Tb drives for 48 Tb raw. I already have 4 - 4Tb drives. This addition would theoretically "max" out the capacity. Fingers crossed that it will work. I may be able to update the firmware on the LSI card if it throws a fit.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @brandon220
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                            @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

                            Looked at the server's spec sheet and it says a max of 8 - 6Tb

                            So you ordered larger drives than the controller can officially handle? Might be fine, but sometimes, that's an actual limit.

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