Curious what the experience is vs. a Rpi. How much ram are you running. Is your node more reliable? Dedicated hardware is always gonna be better but I'm curious of the reliability on a VM vs the Pi.
Look into proxmox, its a open source linux os that lets you deploy vms from a web browser.
I like this proxmox tutorial series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCjuiIswXGs
Type 1 hypervisor like proxmox are used everywhere in industry. It provides a nice GUI to do complex deployments involving clustering and Redundant Arrays of Disks
Here's some other ways to add redundancy to your setup: https://nullcount.com/how-to-add-redundancy-to-your-lightning-node/
I prefer to have many umbrel vms, one for money stuff and separate for media, socials, etc.
How much RAM? Depends on what all you want to run. I like to run max_mempool really high so I do 16GB per VM, but you could run comfortably on 8GB (VM not host memory)
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+1 on proxmox, good call. that's the way I have set it up. Make sure you give enough ram for your bitcoin node if you run that.
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Proxmox is a solid recommendation. Planning to try it out. Thanks.
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I have. Never had a problem, quite the opposite, as backup was very easy (I was using proxmox). 8GB ram
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Yes you should be able to do it pretty easy. Make sure you bridge the connection and RAM wise at least 8. Installed it in few old laptops in the past running Ubuntu and the VM manager within it
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Are you running a non-linux OS?
Umbrel apps (including the umbrel app) are just dockerfiles, so it already runs in a "vm" but it does make assumptions about the operating system so I guess if you're not on a compatible OS you'd need to run a vm.
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Nah, would likely use Debian. I have looked at Proxmox actually.
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Proxmox is based on Debian. In fact you can install it on top of a base Debian Install.
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