In testing and playing around with a lot of Mini PCs in the lab envirnoment lately, this video showcases the Beelink Mini S12 Pro which I think will make a great little Proxmox micro server for running a few workloads, containers, virtual machines, and other tasks as a home server. Check out my thoughts and review of the hardware for this type of use case.
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Introduction – 0:00
Introduction to the Beelink Mini S12 Pro – 0:37
Hardware specs of the Beelink Mini S12 Pro – 0:51
Overview of the Intel N100 CPU – 1:04
Describing the efficiency of the CPU – 1:22
DDR5 memory and configuration of the S12 Pro – 1:41
NVMe 2280 slot for storage – 2:09
Describing the networking of the Beelink S12 Pro – 2:34
Realtek incompatibility with VMware – 2:51
Talking about the experiment to see what this class fo hardware can run – 3:26
Overview of the Proxmox installation, LXC containers, and virtual machines – 3:48
System resource overview – 4:16
Responsiveness of the unit and running updates in containers for workloads – 4:23
No torture tests but real-world tasks being ran – 4:55
Idle time is desirable for home labs for power efficiency – 5:13
Very good fit for home lab workloads – 5:33
Talking about perhaps spinning up even more workloads – 5:57
RAM is most likely the bottleneck with 16 GB of memory and the N100 – 6:12
What is the sweet spot for this class of hardware in the home lab? 6:43
Why run a hypervisor instead of bare metal on this type of hardware? 7:04
Concluding thoughts on the Beelink Mini S12 Pro – 7:33
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