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by invisiblewasabi
2047 days ago
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Thanks for taking questions! How did you go about picking the software? You could have picked xcp-ng, hyper-v, or just run a small Linux machine with QEMU-KVM that you could SSH in or VNC into and change. This would allow SCP or FTP capabilities for your ISOs and images. I've personally never used Proxmox, but I'd like to know how you ended up picking this one over other solutions. Why ditch ESXi? How do you end up managing using the same VMs? Do you have a template and you clone the template? Or do you have a way of just running both a template VM and an application VM, and have the app VM use the template VM for most of it's OS level needs. If you end up having 10 VMs, how do you properly update? |
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>How did you go about picking the software?
I wanted to go with something that was pretty mainstream. I don't care that much about cutting edge features, and I'm more interested in a mature product that I don't have to tinker much with. My experience with Kimchi made me more cautious about taking a chance on smaller projects.
I keep wanting to like ESXi and not really enjoying it. I had a hard time scripting things with ESXi, and certain things seemed to require performing actions in the GUI. I can't remember at this point where the gap was, but I wasn't ever able to figure out how to clone a template and boot it up via CLI, whereas I found it easy to do that with Proxmox.
>How do you end up managing using the same VMs? Do you have a template and you clone the template? Or do you have a way of just running both a template VM and an application VM, and have the app VM use the template VM for most of it's OS level needs.
Yeah, I just have one pre-configured Ubuntu 20.04 template VM, and I clone that whenever I need a new VM. Occasionally, I'll boot up the template just to update its packages and tweak anything. I do all my VM management with Ansible, so there's a standard set of scripts that update and configure the machine whenever I clone a new one.
>If you end up having 10 VMs, how do you properly update?
I sometimes use Ansible to update everything, but honestly I get behind on updates. I wouldn't do that with an Internet-facing server, but none of these VMs are accessible outside my local network, so there's not really much attack surface.