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The original was posted on /r/homelab by /u/travprev on 2024-01-23 05:06:44+00:00.
Hi all. I'm wanting to upgrade my home/small office server setup. I have an antique Synology DS1511+ that has served me well, but my needs have outgrown it and it really is quite an antique.
I will be buying new hardware, and I'm struggling to figure out if I should keep my Linux based server and docker apps separate from the storage (separate server altogether), or if I should combine everything into one server. I'm leaning towards combining into one beefy server, but that raises questions in my mind. Note that I'm a tinkerer, but not an expert in Linux, NAS, etc. I am, however, a quick study with all things tech once I put my mind to it.
I suspect I need a Hypervisor of some sort (XCP-ng / Proxmox) because I want the flexibility to run Linux distros and have a Windows VM as well. So, do I add in a NAS VM such as TrueNAS SCALE, or is that unnecessary complication of the system configuration?
If that is unnecessarily complicated, what do you recommend? Or, maybe I'm on the right track.