Proxmox for HA and Plex on N95 Mini-PC

Installation
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I’m currently running a Windows N95 Mini-PC and 16GB. I’ve Plex Server running bare metal (with 2 local and 2 remote users) and a Home Assistant Hyper-V VM.

HA was basically just a side project, but kept on ballooning…
Now I’m actually thinking of getting rid of my Ikea Gateway and connecting everything directly to HA. I also would like to connect to some Bluetooth devices.

Both of this is extremely hard if not impossible in a Hyper-V environment because it seems to be nigh impossible to get BT and Zigbee connectivity to a Hyper-V VM.

So I thought about moving to Proxmox and running HA and Plex there in VMs. Is this a good idea? Are 16GB Ram and 256GB SSD enough (Media lives on a 4TB SSD)?

Another possibility would be running the HA on dedicated hardware like a Pi or HA Green. But this would mean another device and also extra investments (money’s a bit tight now)…

2

I’m currently running HA, Plex, arr stack and a few other services on an N97 in Proxmox but with LXCs rather than VMs. Everything is local including voice, and with no extra hubs. Uses about 6 gig RAM whilst idle and about 80GB HD space excluding backups.

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That‘s good to hear.
I think I‘ll try installing proxmox on a different SSD so that I can go back if there arise any problems. LXC is a kind of container, not a VM right?

Migrating the HA Hyper-V to Proxmox seems to be a hassle. Would it be possible to do a fresh install and then just import a backup from my current Install?

4

LXCs are more lightweight than VMs but can be harder to configure. HA in an LXC doesn’t support add-ons but I prefer to run Plex etc separately rather than in HA directly.

I would guess you could restore an HA configuration backup to a fresh install rather than migrating an entire VM, haven’t done it myself though.

5

You should be ok to copy the config directory contents from the existing HA to a new one. If you have already configured Bluetooth or zigbee devices these may need to be reconfigured.

My advice is to install Proxmox, then use the Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts to install HA as a VM and Plex as an LXC.

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For bluetooth use bluetooth proxies, as for Zigbee you could go the ethernet-based coordinator route. I use both these in my virtualized setup and I can move my HA vm around without worrying about USB connections.