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I am currently running most of my stuff from an unraid box using spare parts I have. It seems like I am hitting my limit on it and just want to turn it into a NAS. Micro PCs/USFF are what I am planning on moving stuff to (probably a cluster of 2 for now but might expand later.). Just a few quick questions:

  1. Running arr services on a proxmox cluster to download to a device on the same network. I don't think there would be any problems but wanted to see what changes need to be done.

  2. Which micro PCs are you running? I am leaving towards HP prodesk or Lenovo 7xx/9xx series around 200 each. I don't really plan on getting more than 2-3 and don't run too many things, but would want enough overhead if I switch stuff over to home assistant and windows and Linux VMs if needed.

  3. Any best practices you recommend when starting a Proxmox cluster? I've learned over time it's best to set it up correctly than try to fix stuff when it's running. I wish I could coach myself from 7 years ago now. Would of saved a lot of headaches lol.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

My current setup is 3x Lenovo m920q (soon to be 4) all in a proxmox cluster, along with a qnap nas with 20gb ram and 4x 8tb in raid 5.

The specs on the m920q are: I5 8500T 32gb ram 256gb sata SSD 2tb nvme SSD 1gbe nic

On each proxmox machine, I have a docker server in swarm mode and each of those vm all have the same NFS mounts pointing to the nas

On the Nas I have a normal docker installation which runs my databases

On the swarm I have over 60 docker containers, including the arr services, overseerr and two deluge instances

I have no issues with performance or read/write or timeouts.

As one of the other posters said, point all of your arr services to the same mount point as it makes it far easier for the automated stuff to work.

Put all the arr services into a single stack (or at least on a single network), that way you can just point them to the container name rather than IP, for example, in overseerr to tell it where sonarr is, you'd just say http://sonarr:8989 and it will make life much easier

As for proxmox, the biggest thing I'll say from my experience, if you're just starting out, make sure you set it's IP and hostname to what you want right from the start... It's a pain in the ass to change them later. So if you're planning to use vlans or something, set them up first

Pic of my setup