

- #UNRAID PLUGINS VS DOCKER INSTALL#
- #UNRAID PLUGINS VS DOCKER DRIVERS#
- #UNRAID PLUGINS VS DOCKER SOFTWARE#
- #UNRAID PLUGINS VS DOCKER PROFESSIONAL#
It picked up so much stuff in my local network it was amazing.
#UNRAID PLUGINS VS DOCKER INSTALL#
I usually go with Ubuntu Server.I am still very new to Home Assistant and first started out installing it on Debian in the “env” install method and I loved it. I would say the decision is really among Debian, Ubuntu Server, CentOS and SUSE for reliable server distro.
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I would stay away from Docker in your case, Docker is great if you want to easily package your application and scale it out, but Docker instances are stateless, if you are running only one instance of a software use either KVM or LXC for virtualization.Īlso, choose a Linux distro and stick with it (and its derivatives) for host and VMs. If your budget is high, you could even keep a dedicated FreeNAS box and then run your VMs from network storage (iSCSI, PXE, etc). At enterprise level there are proprietary options as well.įor you I would say ProxMox is the way to go. These days, from what I hear, it is either a safe filesystem like ZFS and its replication options if you need that or a distributed storage like Ceph (very complex to setup and maintain).
#UNRAID PLUGINS VS DOCKER PROFESSIONAL#
Usually, snapraid and mergerfs do not even get mentioned in professional discussions when talking about open source storage systems. If one of your HDD starts to lose data, you will not know and snapraid will probably not know it either. Imagine that everytime a HDD fails your system will fail and will malfunction until a replacement HDD arrives. And it sounds quite cumbersome to maintain. If your setup should also have a learning value to you (are you an IT pro?) then I would say stay away from SnapRAID and mergerFS because these technologies are not something anyone would want to use in production for anything serious. I will need VertIO or some way to get the /mnt/Movies etc directories inside of Rancher and then to Plex, Sonarr, etc. Since I'll be running things like Plex, etc. This box will also use SSDs on a different FS for the VMs/Dockers, etc. Mission critical stuff will be stored on a separate array. I realize it's downsides, but the bulk of the storage on here won't be mission critical (movies, TV, etc). If I go ZFS I'll likely go OMV or FreeNAS. If I do MergerFS+SnapRAID I'll likely go Debian server host with Docker+KVM for the rest. Unraid is a pretty easy choice for the rest if I go that way since it is all baked in. Right now my storage choices are down to MergerFS+SnapRAID, ZFS, or Unraid. Both seem like they would work for most of my purposes, but figured I would rather go with a main OS for flexibility moving forward. I considered FreeNAS with jails as well as OMV with plugins. But the issue is that there are just so many ways to go with this. If you have time, try a couple options and just be OK with formatting the boot drives to It came out broader than I was thinking. Then perhaps the container/virtualization stuff. As that limits your selections for the higher layers. I think the first thing to do is pick a disk management technology. That would give you a setup much like Proxmox, just using Docker containers instead of LXC. You could also install Docker directly onto the base Linux install.
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One downside there is disk I/O takes a hit as it has to pass over a VirtIO channel, but the Linux drivers are pretty good and I expect the impact would be small. If I were to go the Docker direction, I think I would try a basic Debian or other Linux, with whatever file/RAID system I chose to use with Rancher running in a KVM. Docker seems to have more options for pre-made containers. Proxmox has some other features that might be interesting like Ceph and clustering, but I don't use them. I think the end result is pretty similar though. I've never used Docker, so I can't really compare them. If you go with Docker, those are available as Docker images as well. I run the usual suspects in lightweight LXC containers and am happy with it. It's not much more, just applying the updates seems a little less simple. You seem aware of the downsides, so I won't go into that.Īll the container stuff works well in Proxmox as well, though maintenance is a little more involved than a Docker setup.

That's a bonus for ZFS, it's quite compatible. At the time, BeHyve couldn't boot Linux on my hardware, so I decided to just use Linux and went to Proxmox/ZFS/containers.

My current hardware started on FreeNAS, but I moved from it as I couldn't get Crashplan to work reliably under it.

FreeNAS jails work pretty well there as well. You can run them on top of almost any Linux setup using Docker or other container technology.
