Set up a Dell Wyse 5070 for Proxmox VE

Setting up a Dell WYSE for Proxmox VE, addition an additional 1tb NVMe to store VMs...

The Dell comes in a 8gb DDR4 ram / 32gb NVMe configuration, with a Pentium Silver J5005. I found one on eBay for £50, it is ideal for trying out proxmox. 

The unit as standard has one NVMe which is on a standard PCIe x4 M key socket (SATA based). I will use this as the Proxmox system drive. I want to add another large NVMe SSD to store the Proxmox VMs and some local storage. Here's how...

Ubuntu + Solid State Drive (SSD): managing or disabling the swap space / page file

There are mixed views on using SSDs for page files / swap space. A frequent view encountered is to avoid having a page file or swap space on an SSD to minimise R/W activity, since FLASH chips have a limited lifespan. Wear levelling helps manage the SSD life but eventually the SSD will degrade and to prolong life paging operations should be avoided. 

An increasingly popular contrasting view is that most modern SSDs will become outdated before they die, therefore worrying about paging to an SSD shouldn't be a priority since the SSD will likely be outdated with cheaper and larger alternatives available before the SSD dies.

Read on for a couple of options for managing an SSD within Ubuntu...