I use Docker LXCs. Really just a Debian LXC with Docker and then Portainer as a UI. I have separate LXCs for common services. Arrs on one LXC, Nextcloud, Immich and SearXNG on another, Invidious on a third. I just separate them so I don’t need to kill all services if I need to restart or take down the LXC for whatever reason.

For ease of setup and use, I’ve found Twingate to be great for outside access to my network.

Not an expert, just something I did and learned from; does the hardware you’re running on have more than one ethernet port (enp#…)? Is it possible you’ve selected the wrong one?

Also I notice my VMs in proxmox have the bridge nomenclature of vmbr0 (not virb0). Perhaps something there?

Just throwing ideas out there, I’m pretty new at this.

I could see it being tedious if you had to manually enter long, random string passwords regularly. Though I suppose you could change them to something easier to type. Ctrl+shift+L (bitwarden extension autofill shortcut) is just so much more convenient.

Re: VPN and Wireguard, I was looking into doing the same on my unifi router, but came across Twingate (through a networkchuck video) and decided to try that instead, being a bit of a networking noob. It’s almost too easy…you can share individual resources or whole networks with user and device control over each. I think you get 5 users and 10 resources in the free plan. I’d recommend looking into it.

I had been pondering Nabucasa for external Home Assistant access but am very happy I found this. Now my wife can have remote access to HA and Plex and I can access the whole network remotely.

I found tteck’s Proxmox Helper Scripts great for getting my proxmox experience off the ground. I’m similar to you with just recently getting started while having limited network experience.

I also just set up Twingate for external access following a networkchuck video and love how easy it was. I was just going to do a vpn on my unifi router but this was a more streamlined solution.

As far as services, I’ve got:

• Plex
• Home Assistant (a huge but fantastic rabbit hole)
• pihole
• A docker LXC running Portainer, a transmission+OpenVPN container, SearXNG, and Twingate
• Trilium (notes app similar to Evernote or OneNote)
• Nextcloud (kind of frustrated with this one, mobile auto-upload doesn’t want to ever work properly)
• BlueIris NVR
• Heimdall dashboard

I don’t watch enough TV to justify setting up the *arr services and prefer to find my own Linux ISOs if I’m interested in a particular one. Otherwise I’m quite happy with my setup, all running on an old desktop PC.

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I used Tteck’s Proxmox Helper Scripts to get haos up on my proxmox setup. They make installation very easy.

What is an M? Miles? That doesn’t seem right.

Yeah, I’m using an old desktop as my home server/NAS, so it has enough juice for several proxmox containers and VMs. If yours is just functioning as a NAS it’s probably not worth more complexity than a single OS.

If I remember correctly, OMV takes the whole drive for the OS as well.

I switched to Proxmox a couple months ago from OMV and am glad I did. I love the ability to really experiment with pretty much anything without impacting the services already running. I’ve been tinkering with Home Assistant, got Blue Iris on a Windows VM after Frigate wouldn’t seem to play nice for me, and have added a few other services I didn’t even know existed when using OMV. Scheduled backups are very nice as well.

It’s pretty straightforward to set up and there are lots of tutorials and documentation if you get stuck somewhere. I’d recommend it, coming from a pretty basic user with limited experience outside of Windows.

+1 for Ubiquiti here too. My network is a fair bit smaller, but I have a regular Dream Machine for WiFi, router and firewall, and just an 8 port poe switch for two AP-AC-Pros and two cameras. The ecosystem is very expandable too, so I can easily add devices if I’m running out of capacity.

They’re a little pricier, but definitely worth it IMO for something that just works with minimal tinkering. Networking setup is quite easy as well, Mactelecom networks on YT has some great videos on that.