when considering a 2ru case. consider future use. the case will only take half-height, half lenght cards which could issues down the track if you want to add graphics or HBA cards.
If you won’t think you’ll need them everything should be fine.
taticalrmm which builds on meshcentral to handle the remote access.
virtualising means you can make more use of resources on system rather than having two systems and dedicating one to specific task.
On the other hand you can bork the hypervisor and then be without internet and possible become the families public enemy #1 :)
But it’s generally pretty stable. Not use opnSense but do have a virtualised router using SophosXG. One nic from the VM is tied to vmbr0 which is the main virtual bridge that ties my virtual machines to the rest of the network. The IP is my default gateway.
the second NIC is done as PCIe pass through and this connects direct to my cable modem.
I could have bound this NIC to another vmbr and would have worked just as well. However there was some discussion in r/proxmox about performance impacts if you have a very fast internet connection (something to with srv-io iirc).
as the drive a single unit you can use LTFS which allows you click n drag the files to tape just like it was another hard disk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HjjNOcqGt4&t=8s&pp=ygUIbHRvIHRhcGU%3D
Tape drives are more enterprise area so the software is priced accordingly.
Veeam has a community edition which supports tape drives but you’d probably need a bit more set up.
just need a straight HBA i.e no raid support such as the IT mode controllers used for TrueNAS etc such as an LSI 92xxe.
needs the to be an “e” for the external connector.
Then he just need an cable to go between them. Google should be able to confirm the type needed.
search the forum.
many discussions on running minecraft
No proxmox isn’t harder to get into but it’s different from TrueNAS.
TrueNAS is a storage system than can host apps,
ProxMox is a hypervisor which is first and foremot about compute - i.e the ability to run virtual machines and containers (LXC). It can utilise ZFS (which is the basis for TrueNAS) for VM storage but it’s not intended as network storage.
A container is a lighter way of doing a virtual machine. It shares the kernel with Proxmox (hence only being able to run Linux distros in LXC).
That said you can run TrueNAS as a VM under Proxmox or you can spin up a file server in a container and utilise the ZFS system for storage.
With Proxmox and the 1080 you could go one of a couple of ways.
Put Plex in a LXC and it will be able to access the GPU through the kernel space with Proxmox (drivers are installed at the hypervisor level). Advantage is that you still have gpu for the console.
Option 2 is to pass the GPU through to a virtual machine. This has to be a done on a 1:1 basis i.e the 1080 can only be used by one VM at a time. IF you’re interest you can go down the path of vGPU which would allow the GPU to be shared between a number of VMs.
However as part of the configuration processor you blacklist the drivers and card which means it’s not available for the console (normally won’t matter if but if you have any problems it can make trouble shooting a bit harder).