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I still have 20GB of memory available in my homelab. What else should I add?
▲ 961 r/homelab

I still have 20GB of memory available in my homelab. What else should I add?

I feel like my media needs are completely met now unless there's something I'm forgetting about. I've been able to replace all of the audio and video streaming services I used to have. I've also been able to replace google photos, so I have basically eliminated most of my subscruptions apart from my ISP.

What other containers are worth adding now? I'm happy that I can now sit and enjoy what I've built, but I still have 20GB of memory available, so I want to add more.

I am considering tailscale so I can check on things while at work if there are any problems, or access my streaming services remotely when needed.

u/Reave1905 — 24 hours ago
▲ 10 r/unRAID

Migrating Unraid from VM to bare metal (Same hardware)

TLDR at the bottom.

I have only been creating my homelab over the last 6 months or so. I've made a lot of mistakes but I've also learned a lot more. I started off with a few Windows VMs on Hyper-V, but had issues with transcodes and couldn't get GPU passthrough working so I swapped over to Proxmox. Eventually I got rid of one of my windows VMs in favour of a Linux VM dedicated to Docker, and then I discovered Unraid while researching building a NAS as I had a few free drive bays in my PC and a few gifted hard drives.

I know it isn't officially supported, but I set up Unraid on a VM because I couldn't afford to get rid of all my containers immediately and build everything from scratch. i've set it up exactly how I want it, and all of my VMs are now offline so I am looking into retiring Proxmox entirely on this PC and running Unraid on bare metal instead, but I had a question before I pull the trigger.

Since the VM I created for Unraid doesn't actually have a virtual hard drive allocated to it, and the internal hard drives are all passed through the hypervisor to the Unraid VM as SATA devices, would everything work okay if I just rebooted the PC and changed the boot order to boot from USB instead of the internal NVME? I know that the hardware would be detected differently, and I don't want to get myself blacklisted by doing this all the wrong way.

If any of you have any experience moving straight from a VM to a bare metal config on the same hardware and are willing to give your advice and experience I'd really appreciate it.

TLDR: want to switch off Proxmox and all my VMs to move to Unraid on bare metal. My Unraid is currently set up on a VM on the same device I want to use as the bare metal device. Anything I need to do in advance to make sure it goes smoothly?

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u/Reave1905 — 10 days ago