Proxmox Media setup help — by BadCo_NZ, Dratatoo and others on Level1Techs Forums

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A home-server design thread about where to keep media for Plex/Jellyfin on Proxmox. Responders suggest mirroring the NVMe with ZFS, running Docker apps in a VM (or apps in LXCs), sharing storage to them by NFS or virtio-fs, a separate VM or container for SMB, and putting any VPN on a pfSense or OPNsense gateway. Opinions differ, so treat it as discussion rather than a single recipe.

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Source: Proxmox Media setup help by BadCo_NZ, Dratatoo and others on Level1Techs Forums. Licence: Link only (©).

Source reviewed: 2026-11-02
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