Move Home Assistant to Proxmox: A complete step-by-step guide

This step-by-step guide will show how to install Proxmox and move your current Home Assistant instance in less than an hour and with less than five minutes of downtime for Home Assistant. And you might be surprised by how easy the process is and also to learn that you don't need expensive, high-end hardware to improve the performance and reliability of Home Assistant. There are many ways to do this, but the method I show is meant to be easy to follow and to minimize both risk and downtime. Note that this is not intended to be a full Proxmox tutorial, but will include what you need to know to create a VM and move Home Assistant, along with information on creating backups and snapshots of your new VM.

A written version of this video can be found at: https://resinchemtech.blogspot.com/20...

Chapter Links:
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00:00 Intro and background
01:28 Why run Home Assistant on Proxmox
02:38 Minimum and recommended hardware
06:40 Downloading Proxmox and preparing installation media
07:46 Checking system BIOS and Settings
08:35 Optionally setting fixed IP before installtion
09:17 Installing Proxmox on target machine
13:52 Accessing Proxmox and signing in for the first time
15:20 Updating Proxmox and changing repositories
18:50 IP address considerations and options
19:49 Installing Home Assistant in a new VM
23:09 Starting the VM and checking Home Assistant
24:02 Restoring Home Assistant from backups
25:42 Cutting over from old system to new Proxmox system
28:25 Reviewing new system
29:16 Mapping a NAS and creating VM backups
33:50 Creating and using snapshots
34:55 Repurposing the original version hardware
35:52 Summary and future plans

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Other Links mentioned:
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Written version of this project: https://resinchemtech.blogspot.com/20...
Proxmox Download: https://www.proxmox.com/en/downloads
balenaEtcher: https://www.balena.io/etcher
tteckster Proxmox Helper Scripts: https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/
Community post on installation shown in video: https://community.home-assistant.io/t...

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