So, I got a Dell R720 server with 2x 100 GB SSDs and 6 x 900 GB SAS10000 drives in it. I wanted to use this as my Home Assistant server, as I feel like My Raspberry Pi 3+ just is not running well anymore, with the amount of stuff I have on it.
I first tried putting ESXi on the server, but did not succeed getting Hass.io to run on it.
Therefore, I tried Proxmox, where I see a lot of people are having success. However, I must admit, this is way beyond what I can figure out. So much CLI work, with no obvious logic to how things work.
Therefore, I would like to know what a good, fast, reliable platform could be to run Hass.io on? One that is intuitive to learn, manage and use.
At this point, I do not even care if I have to buy new hardware to run it on either, I just do not want to spend more hours with something that is way too complicated(Proxmox for example).
I was trying to run a VM with the VMDK file, but I needed OVA/OVF files as well, that did not exist currently. So I gave up and tried Proxmox which a lot of people are talking about currently. But even managing storage in Proxmox is way beyond my skills.
I used this tutorial to install hassio under VirtualBox with an Ubuntu VM, all running on a Windows desktop. The big advantage over Pi beyond stability, is the ease of machine-level backups with snapshots. Before every hassio upgrade I take a snapshot which only takes a couple of seconds (to either take or rollback to). If you then also install Portainer, you can see and connect to all of the Docker containers, including hassio.