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I have pretty much the same setup except everything I have is in a Windows Server host (HASSOS & Ubuntu VMs), and some slightly different services.
Been considering moving to Proxmox, mainly so I can have USB passthrough to my VMs but I may have found another way about it (I need for Zigbee but will try Z2MQTT on Windows first).
Mate, I rate proxmox, I was an esxi fan boy but then tried proxmox and won't go back.
I run z2mqtt on HASSOS, and I got a video on my channel in my profile if I need a guide.
I only really have experience with Windows hosts (professionally and personally), I'd just need to move over my 2 VMs to Proxmox and fire up another for the services I have installed on the Windows host itself which could be annoying.
My Linux ISO files (...) are on 2 8TB HDDs in NTFS too though so I don't know how I'd go about using those in a Proxmox environment.
Been using ZHA with a WiFi Zigbee controller and it's been doing my head in, losing devices very often. I have a USB dongle waiting to be set up, hoping this resolves it.
Not sure if proxmox supports vhdx from hyper-v, so would be a full rebuild.
But you can restore HASSOS and backup docker configuration files to new instance.
I didn't have too many devices on ZHA at the old home maybe 10, but new home I'm going all out. Z2mqtt I've had no issues so far.
Not sure if proxmox supports vhdx from hyper-v, so would be a full rebuild.
I've seen there's some conversion utils, though a full rebuild wouldn't be too bad as it's only hosting some docker containers.
HASSOS should indeed be a backup & restore piece of cake.
Just finished the switchover from ZHA using a WiFi controller to Z2MQTT using a USB controller.
Hopefully solves my drop off issues, I do actually like Z2MQTT's interface, and the devices seem faster...
Nice mate, hope it fixed it
Why are you running Ubuntu in proxmox? Like can't you just have an Ubuntu machine? (I don't use proxmox and don't like to use it)
It comes down to what the hardware supports; Proxmox server allows spinning up virtual machines for testing without affecting production services.
Unraid is our dedicated server for daily use, 1 physical hardware giving 2 virtual clients with passthrough to 2 sets of monitors, keyboard and mice.
I myself just moved away from unRaid due to the constant call trace hangs that still seem to be an issue and unresolved as of the latest version. After some consideration I moved my storage to another Proxmox server with ZFS based storage and will just run a container(s) to share out any data through whatever services I need, be it samba, NFS, SFTP...
Can you do passthrough with proxmox? 2 clients into kvm sets?
