Hi everyone! I’m looking to help my workplace get away from their crap it solutions provider and make them more independent. The business is moving over to hosted Odoo instead of the DIY solution it currently has hosted through the it provider. In that were thinking to put a local Nas, capable of running containers for a local mirror of Odoo in case of network outages, as well as an NVR for the IP cameras, and to host files (with external backup) locally. I did my research on available Nas options a few years ago but that’s already outdated so I would love to hear what you folks are running at home and at work. The network is powered by a Ubiquiti Dream machine SE, but the cameras are dahua, hence why it doesn’t do nvr. Priority is ease of use, containerization and four disk bays. In Western Australia, so not everything is available either… Thankful for any help, cheers!
Proxmox running on whatever hardware will suit your needs should be good. It can do windows and Linux VMs, and can run containers too. It provides Ceph for storage, or you can host something else like OpenMediaVault in a container.
As a nerd I’d love to run proxmox but I also don’t want it to be my headache, so I’m looking for more finished solutions that have good support. I won’t be here in 6 months and I want something that will run on its own with minimal interference. And when issues do arise, something standard enough that any it consultant can pick it up and provide help.
Do you have any people working in IT besides you? If not its probably a bad idea to shift everything to inhouse. Management gonna like it up until something happens. And their is always something that will happen in the fast moving IT world. Do you have multiple backups inplace? Any offsite and immutable? Any person besides you who gonna regularly validate them and fix them if problems arrise? If the answer to any of this is no, don’t do it. There is a reason for these it solutions provider and why they are usually not cheap. Just find someone better instead of trying to cheap out.
If proxmox is too difficult I would probably remove pretty much every free/ open source options and move to something like synology since it seems like you’re working at a small company.
Proxmox offers paid support though and is a finished solution. Since the vmware acquisition multiple people I consult at work moved some of their systems to proxmox.