Best Way Forward

[Dale Peters]

Hello all. I'm just getting started with my homelab. I have been playing with it for 2 weeks trying to come up with how I want to have it set up on a more permanent basis. I started out with proxmox running pihole in a lxc, I have an ubuntu server in a vm running things on docker (Portainer, Heimdall, Home Assistant, Plex, and Next Cloud so far) all in relatively early stages of usage. And then I have a VM for Unraid with the usb and sas controller passed through. 

 

The main purpose of this whole setup is to provide a place for backups for my three computers, storage for media, and place for me to learn networking and linux. Going through the past 2 weeks trying different things and learning, I have tried TrueNAS (chose not to use because it was way more than I needed, zfs limits drive expansion for me), OMV (couldn't get it to work right, probably something I did), Rockstor (I learned more about btrfs, but wasn't too keen on Rockstor's implementation), and finally Unraid, which looks like it fits me perfectly. 

 

My question is (sorry for the long intro), I'm pretty sold on dropping proxmox (I'm not really studying virtualization and won't use all of it's features) and just running bare metal unraid, running the things I have in the ubuntu server I'm vm'ing just for docker in docker in unraid, and doing what little I will do in VM's in unraid.

 

All that to ask what would be the best way to move from the trial setup I have now on a USB stick I want to change to a new one I bought just for Unraid. I would like to save the config I have in Unraid now (including shares), use the 1tb ssd I have to boot proxmox for a cache drive, and keep the data I have already put on my Unraid instance.

 

Hope that wasn't too much of a slog, but thanks in advance for any help!