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?
More exciting are the people that host Their firewall/router like OPNSense/PFSense as a VM on their system! 😄
okay you actually made me laugh. that’s not easy - take an upvote.
That was me for about 2 weeks until the esxi took a shit. Never again. I basically went “fuck this shit” and bought a ubiquity udm.
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I’m all for this actually. Though I’d be doing that on a dedicated machine with just pfsense/opnsense on it. Any other way would be kinda dumb right?
I did it for years. The only problem is, if you mess up your opnsense config, you’re gonna need to get the keyboard and monitor out.
I do this and it works great. My server box is always on anyway running all my services, so I might as well add another service to it. Saves on power, space and management.