u/hannsr u/nolo_me u/phidauex u/Raithmir Cheers for your comments all!
It seems like Proxmox is the way to go here.
I’ve been doing some research this morning and I have an idea of how I’d configure this.
3 nodes running in a high availability cluster. All apps running in containers. I could then set 2 of the nodes to power down during non-peak times and only power the other 2 up at busier times. For example, on an evening when more of my plex users are streaming & transcoding.
I’d also run proxmox backup server on the 4th PC, set to only power on for a short time each day to take a backup.
Some things that I’d need to look into further:
- Setting up a NUT client on each machine, so they receive shutdown commands from my UPS.
- Mapping the NAS drives correctly.
- Mounting my drives for download cache and plex metadata
- Setting up wake on lan/ shutdown commands from my Pi thats running homebridge, so I can automate the times that the nodes power on via the iOS home app.
This all sounds possible to me (which a lot more research and tinkering!) but if anyone has any thoughts, or can see a glaring error in my logic, then please let me know your thoughts!
Thanks again.
u/hannsr u/nolo_me u/phidauex u/Raithmir Cheers for your comments all!
It seems like Proxmox is the way to go here.
I’ve been doing some research this morning and I have an idea of how I’d configure this.
3 nodes running in a high availability cluster. All apps running in containers. I could then set 2 of the nodes to power down during non-peak times and only power the other 2 up at busier times. For example, on an evening when more of my plex users are streaming & transcoding.
I’d also run proxmox backup server on the 4th PC, set to only power on for a short time each day to take a backup.
Some things that I’d need to look into further:
- Setting up a NUT client on each machine, so they receive shutdown commands from my UPS.
- Mapping the NAS drives correctly.
- Mounting my drives for download cache and plex metadata
- Setting up wake on lan/ shutdown commands from my Pi thats running homebridge, so I can automate the times that the nodes power on via the iOS home app.
This all sounds possible to me (which a lot more research and tinkering!) but if anyone has any thoughts, or can see a glaring error in my logic, then please let me know your thoughts!
Thanks again.