Migrating from proxmox to unraid (alien.top)

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Hello everyone,im thinking about migrating from proxmox to unraid but im not sure if this is a good idea and I need some feedback.

I currently have 1 server with consumer hardware which runs proxmox and has 4 VMs:

TrueNAS (2* 4tb)
VM for docker and other services
Game Servers running on an SSD
Game Servers running on an M.2

Im planning on upgrading my storage to 3 * 20TB in the near future.

My goal is it to remove complexity from my homelab and unraid has some features like mixing drive sizes and reduced power consumption. I know that the migration of all the docker containers and volumes will be a pain.

The main reason why I'm thinking about this, is that a the kernel of a friends proxmox killed itself, which was a lots of work to fix.

Would this have a performance impact?Is it possible to run docker containers on different drives?

I'd love to hear your opinions!

My Current Setup: https://imgur.com/a/1hLu8e4

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[-] MaximumGuide@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I've been using unraid for a few years on bare metal, and I have it running two VMs about around 30 containers. I plan to do the opposite of what you're asking here; I'm going to migrate unraid to be a vm on proxmox and the two VMs I have on unraid will move to proxmox. I'm not sure where I want to run the containers yet, but I eventually plan to have another proxmox server so that I can always keep important services up even when I need to have a physical server down for maintenance.

Unraid is OK. It's easy to use and manage, but it definitely does not feel like an enterprise system. Backups work but are a little clunky and you can't run unraid as a cluster or in HA mode.

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