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Proxmox uses LXC for containers and KVM for virtualization. TrueNAS SCALE (now) uses LXC for containers and KVM for virtualization. Is there any use-case left where it still makes sense to run SCALE inside of Proxmox, or is it just as good/peformant to have SCALE handle both NAS duties as well as the other things I would normally run in containers and VMs?

Could I, for example, set up a container/VM that needs especially quick I/O or a very fast single-thread CPU process in SCALE and expect the results to be about as good as they would have been in Proxmox, or is there more to it?

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[โ€“] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, I am interested in this, too. Just planning my next home server.

My thoughts so far: Truenas will be one VM, and some other things I might want to run in separate VMs outside of Truenas. I don't know yet if I can have complete VMs managed by Truenas.

[โ€“] artifex@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

You can - I currently have a few "real" VMs running along side LXC containers for Linux-based stuff that isn't docker-ized yet, and of course a bunch of individual apps (jellyfin, photoprism, etc.) that come from truenas's library and run in Docker containers natively. So everything seems to be working well, I just wonder if there's something I'm missing out on (FOMO/grass is always greener, etc., etc.)