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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @brandon220
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      @brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

      I just have flashbacks of many people being against it for so long.

      Because it sucked. But....
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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @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 - to manage Hyper-V.

        This is why I do not use it.

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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @JaredBusch
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          @JaredBusch said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

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

          Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V.

          This is why I do not use it.

          This is something MS is just totally failing at with Hyper-V.

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          • brandon220B
            brandon220
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            KVM with Cockpit could be perfect if it were a bit more polished.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @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.

              It's getting there. But ProxMox has just so much more at this point.

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              • GreyG
                Grey @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.

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

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                • brandon220B
                  brandon220 @Grey
                  last edited by brandon220

                  @Grey I'll have to give it a try. Could also run W10 as a VM on Fedora Workstation...

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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403 @Grey
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                    @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

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                    • brandon220B
                      brandon220 @DustinB3403
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                      @DustinB3403 Yes, Hyper-V manager works too well not to utilize it. I do use PS though for certain tasks though.

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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
                                last edited by

                                @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
                                  last edited by

                                  @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
                                    last edited by

                                    @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
                                      last edited by

                                      @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
                                        last edited by

                                        @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
                                          last edited by

                                          @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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