= Migrate from a dedicated home server to Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) to ease my setup =

Hi follks,
Currently, I have my own dedicated home server (8gb of RAM and i5 4400) to host some docker services like vaultwarden, code server, plex, home assistant, paperless, homer, grafana, Unifi Controller, etc. It works great

I have also a DS 1618+ to host all my medias and documents

I want to ease my setup, and reduce the number of devices in my house. So I’m thinking about moving all my containers (excepted Home Assistant) within a virtualized Ubuntu Server hosted on my Synology on which I will have to upgrade the RAM to 16 GB and perhaps add an M2 SSD

Comparing the old Home Server CPU with the Synology I own does not show big caveat: httpscpu-compare.com/cpu/compare/intel_atom_c3538-vs-intel_core_i5-4440 I will even save energy. I will lose the GPU part, but I don’t transcode my video, the Nvidia Shield I have is perfect

Can you tell me if someone already follow this path, and if yes what was the outcome? The virtual machine was stable enough? What about the reactivity of your NAS?
Thx

I would recommend that you move the docker containers to run directly on the NAS itself, instead of using a virtualised Ubuntu server. It will make a massive difference in resource consumption and offer better performance

Of course you need to invest a little time in migrating individual docker images but it’s better in the long run

Well, I ignored this path as I have many docker-compose files and want to use the latest Docker version available without touching the NAS setup itself

I also prefer docker but for VM use snapshot and snapshot replication for fast and efficient versioning of a LUN

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