Okay I saw this posted a lot and apparently it is pretty common but why do people virtualize your nas in for example a proxmox server/cluster. If that goes down it gets super hard to get your data back than if you do it bare Metal, doesn’t it? Are people only doing it so save on seperate devices or are my concerns unreasonable?

  • rufus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I actually did this for a few months until I saved up enough for a decent dedicated firewall appliance. Got a cheap PCIe 2x1GB NIC off Amazon and passed it directly to an OPNsense VM.

    Honestly, it wasn’t that bad. The only downside is that that Proxmox server was just an old repurposed desktop PC that was super underpowered, so the VM only had like 2GB of RAM and that ended up being a bit of a bottleneck under load.

    • vividspecter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I’m doing it with openwrt x86, since I need SQM + wireguard (and at least the former still isn’t supported on *sense last time I checked). Works fine in all honesty, and I can reboot the VM much faster than real hardware.