Proxmox

Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty managing virtual machines in a control room, with screens showing Ubuntu, Docker, Fail2ban, and memory ballooning. Speech bubble: 'VM's are easy in Proxmox'.

Proxmox

Part 3: Setting up Virtual Machines

While Proxmox offers lightweight LXC containers, I decided to use Virtual Machines (VMs). VMs provide better security and a richer feature set through full kernel-level isolation. Of course the operating system was going to be Linux based. You want a distribution that is: * Stable * Stay's up to date

A cartoon illustration of four happy servers linked together as a Proxmox Cluster.

self-hosted

Part 1: Setting up a Proxmox Cluster

After acquiring four HP EliteDesk 800 G3 PCs from eBay, the first phase of my home data center project was getting them from bare metal to a fully functioning, clustered platform. Each server came with: * Intel Core i5-7500 CPU * 8GB DDR4-2400 SDRAM (up to 64GB) * 256GB SSD All four cost