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I used to really like esxi, but broadcom screwed us on that.
Hyper-v sucks to run and manage. It's also pretty bloated.
Proxmox is pretty awesome if you want full VMs. I'm gonna move everything I have onto it eventually.
For ease of use, if you have Synology that can run containers, it's okay.
I also like and tend to use unraid at my house, but that's more because of my insane storage requirements and how I upgrade with dissimilar disks fairly frequently. (I'm just shy of 500tb and my server holds 38 disks.)
Damn, 38 disks! How do you connect them all? Some kind of server hardware?
Curious because I'm currently using all 6 SATA ports on an old consumer motherboard and not sure how I'll be able to expand my storage capacity. The best option I've seen so far would probably be adding PCIe SATA controller(s), but I can't imagine having enough PCIe slots to reach 38 disks that way! Wondering if there's another option I haven't seen yet.
Yep. It's a 4u super micro chassis with the associated backplanes.
I had some servers left over from work. It's set up to also take jbod cards with mini-sas to expand into additional shelf's if I need that.
My setup really isn't much of an entry setup. It's similar to this: https://store.supermicro.com/us_en/4u-superstorage-ssg-641e-e1cr36h.html
That means every one of your disks is >13TB? That's expensive!
It's been a long term build. With unraid it's been pretty easy to slowly add disks one disk at a time.
I'm moving everything towards 22tb disks right now. It's still got a handful of 4 and 5tb disks in it. I've ended up with a pile of smaller disks that I've pulled and just.. sit around.
I also picked up a Synology recently that houses 12x 12tb disks that goes into that total count. I've got another couple Synologys just laying around unused.
I've got 30x4TB disks, just because second hand enterprise gear is so cheap. I'll slowly replace the 4TB SAS with larger capacity SATA to make use of the spin down functionality of unraid. I don't need the extra speed of SAS and I wouldn't mind saving a few watt-hours.