dedicating the sata to True nas for the ZFS pool of truenas makes it more bare metal indeed .
yes it does run vm in browser if needed

or just in the interface it self ...

or even on your mobile phone with the proxmox app .

or use an extern app like proxcenter to monitor all your proxmox nodes in one place ...

you can find more about it here : https://github.com/adminsyspro/proxcenter-ui