[xrd]

Am I right that proxmox takes over your entire machine?

I have been using a combination of docker and lxc/lxd to manage my VMs. But, cockpit (on ubuntu) does not give me a perfect experience for managing running VMS, etc.

I wish there was a good solution for all of this. But, it feels like you need to cobble together a bunch of kibana tools to get true monitoring.

[pkaye]

Proxmox runs on top of Debian. The Debian is part of the install but I think you could install the packages separately on an existing Debian install. You could even install cockpit if you want to.

[gchamonlive]

I wanted to delegate management of my raid array to higher level tools since it died on me seemingly for nothing (I was able to recover all the drives but none of the files).

I tried TrueNAS but it's very rigid. Proxmox seems to give you more control over what's installed on the server but it's also quite locked down. Don't remember exactly what was it that pushed me off Proxmox. I think it was that I needed to manage some VMs over LXD API and others over proxmox and I couldn't mix and match, I had to choose one without extra hacks.

[alsetmusic]

Yes, installing Proxmox is akin to installing ESXi.

[jdboyd]

Usually, proxmox is the base OS (meaing replaces whatever Linux/Windows/FreeBSD/etc that there was before). It is possible to run Proxmox inside KVM, but that isn't the usual choice.

[stephen_g]

Specifically, running Proxmox in a VM (for me at least) I'd only recommend for testing Proxmox itself, not for any production setup (even "production" in my homelab)

[unixhero]

Monitoring is there in Proxmox