I have been testing this machines fairly intensely over the last few weeks. With the release of Qwen3.8 27B, I have been kicking a lot of heat out of this box and it has held up well. The model has an annoying habit of insane reasoning blocks. Between that and my migration to vLLM, I have spend a lot of time troubleshooting.
45 Drives shipped it with the wrong CPU, so I was just working with 8 cores to begin with. Now I have something that gives me more room to stretch.
I am still playing around with the right way to segment my different services like MCP, Gitea, Turnstone, the vLLM workloads etc. onto different VMs. Once I smooth out the rough edges on the model and my turnstone instance, I’ll move to integrating a Proxmox MCP server. I am a long way from an infrastructure aid, but I am learning a lot as I go