HEXOS on bare metal, or a VM in proxmox

[The Callorhinchus]

I am not sure how to best set up my home server to work for my needs

I have been looking to build a home server for some time, and I have found many trade-offs between operating systems based on their target audiences.
Some platforms are NAS first, hypervisor second, and vice-versa.

in future, how much focus will there be on virtualisation beyond docker apps? 

I was planning on running TrueNAS as a NAS solution anyway, so using HEXOS is a no-brainer for me as it IS Truenas, with a new UI and management panel. but I still want to have the flexibility of running other VM's with direct hardware passthrough for larger applications and services.

Would you guys recommend running HEXOS as a VM inside of Proxmox to get the true hypervisor features as well as the simplified NAS and Docker app functions?

[PsychoWards]

I'm interested in this as well, is it better to use Proxmox for the VM stuff and use Hexos as a NAS only or should we just use Hexos for both the storage and VMs?

[The Callorhinchus]

@PsychoWards Im surprised that I haven't seen someone else pose this question, as it seems like a no-brainer to want both quality VM performance and HEXOS's ease of use for NAS and docker app loads.

Running docker apps in Proxmox using LXC containers is crap anyway, if HEXOS can handle the docker apps with good performance and is stable, that's one less VM to worry about

 

[PsychoWards]

@The Callorhinchus I'm not sure if you got an invite already but @Adster mentioned in one of the categories, which you see after you got the invitation, that the everything is running fine when installing Hexos as a VM in Promox, so at least there's that.

I guess most people using proxmox just use truenas directly, the Hexos target audience probably doesn't want or need the increased complexity/possibilities?

I'll use proxmox since Hexos currently doesn't support all the applications which I need and I will spin up dockers in a VM in proxmox.

[Eztebe]

For me, I was going to use Proxmox on a bare metal server and have TrueNAS Scale in a VM to handle storage (with a pass through HBA card) for all other VMs, and containers. But I’ll now be using HexOS instead of TN to handle storage as it will simply things up.

For containers, I am not sure yet if I’ll let hexOS take care of it or if I’ll have a dedicated VM for them.