Install the proxmox iso directly on the hardware. Then setup a Debian without DE in a vm to run docker. Use Portainer to manage Docker containers.

Storage can then be assigned via Proxmox to the vm’s that need it.

LVM is just a way more flexible partition table. It gives you the possibility to grow partitions at a later date. You probably not think you can do that with MBR or GPT too. Well yes, but only when the spare room is adjacent to the partition you want to grow. With LVM you can grow partitions even if the free space is somewhere else on the disk.

So you can grow any disk ‘partition’ at any time as long as you have some free space in the group.

Another advantage is that you can encrypt logical volumes easily. Usually that’s supported when you install the OS.

You can also stack LVM on top of a software RAID, so you can create a mdadm from a disk partition of several disks and create a VG on that with LVs to spilt it into pieces.

I usually use LVM on every server. There is no need not to and gives you options for the future.

Ok, so it is not that hard then I guess. Install proxmox on the appliance, then install two vm’s, HA and pfsense. Deal with further segmentation of your lan and the bridge to the router in pfsense.

But if you ask me, drop the idea of vlans for appliances and keep it simple. Only make a guest network on WiFi, but using vlans is a pita, people want to stream to tv’s, use the app to control heating, etc. If you are concerned about appliances connecting to internet, just block internet access in OpenWRT or pfsense.

I’ve no idea what you are talking about

Didn’t you work at NASA ?

Yeah, and one day the Tesla owners wake up and will be faced with $1 per trip in their car too. Reminder me in 2 years please.

There is NextCloud. It has the possibility to create an upload link where people can upload stuff. We use it daily to receive stuff from our customers.

If you need the resuming part, you would be better off giving them a NextCloud account and share a folder. Their NextCloud app will sync it in the background and resume automatically.

I settled on https://www.audiobookshelf.org Might be a bit confusing at first, but after setting it up, it does exactly what I want. Easy to listen to podcast on my iPhone, including setting speed & sleep timer and the server fetches the new episodes every day.

You’ll be fine. In the past stuff like ftp and sip could get confused by double nat, but not so much today. And stuff like opening a port from outside to the inside needs some planning through double nat.

We run it in the office for years now and it is totally fine. We are in a building with multiple companies sharing internet and we wanted our own network within, so we are using double nat (internet modem and our switch).

Netbox is ok, but I’m looking for something more visual.

Thanks, but I’m looking for something else. I know about draw.io, but it’s just a drawing tool. I can use 10 different tools for that. I’m looking for something more advanced than that.

None. Just use everything in the VM’s. Yes that’s over committing, but who cares if the lead normally is reasonable and you can watch the ’summary’ in pm to see how the system is doing. Stop worrying, grab the proxmox iso and have fun

You would have 12 GB ram shared over all the dockers. I think you will be fine. Unless everything will be used intensively continuously. But that’s my opinion. Just give it a shot, nothing to loose. Promox itself does not take so much. So if it it does not run in this setup you need different hardware anyhow.

I don’t like the solution of running docker next to proxmox, not in a vm, you want proxmox to respond even if the docker vm is busy/overloaded.

In terms of backup you should be good. I would skip that weekly local backup construction, not sure what that adds if the off site backup is working reliable. I’ld format that one and add proxmox to it and make proper use of it (like a second docker vm)

Yeah, that will work fine! I’ve a similar setup and it works fine. 2 VM’s for stuff that needs a VM and a bunch of docker containers in a separate VM.

And your Nginx will work fine in Docker. Set it up on a random port and route from the modem/router to that random port and from there to your VM, so something like 443 on modem goes to port 8443 on the ip of the VM running docker.

It also gives you the possibility to later on add a second server with Proxmox, put them both in a cluster so you can easily move one of your VM’s to a second node.

Final advice is that Tuxis is offering 150GB of free Proxmox backup service. So you can use that for some important VM’s to be stored off site for free (encrypted of course) with full support within your Proxmox environment to create or restore backups (or even restore some files from inside the VM). See https://www.tuxis.nl/en/ordering/?case=PBS and https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-backup-server/overview