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Excellent all great information, thank you so much. I'm still considering the hardware I'll go with. I might go with dual EPYC Rome CPUs if I want something more serious. But then, that is not cheap right now. Is there some good documentation somewhere that is easy to follow to install UNRAID as a VM under Proxmox? I am new to both Proxmox and UNRAID. Thanks again.

I see. Interesting. I also understand why you said a waste of resources, considering the motherboard you use, dual CPU. Depending on the CPU however, it is best to split them up. But then I would be wasting space and money on another case. And performance wise you had no issue with UNRAID running as a VM under Proxmox?. From my original specs, I modified it to look like this AMD Ryzen 3700 64 gigs of ECC RAM 4 x 3 Tb Drives for Proxmox in Raid10 using the motherboards SATA ports (to run VMs) LSI SAS9200-8i in TI-MODE to service (to begin with) 4 x 6 Tb WD RED NAS drives ASUS X470 Crosshair VII Hero (Already had the board) 2 x Realtek 1 Gb ethernet (I would dedicate 1 to UNRAID, the other to PROXMOX) Talking about NICs, did you assign a specific ethernet card to you UNRAID? Also, seeing that you have a server board with 2 CPU sockets and your core assignments, perhaps a 3700X wouldn't be enough and should get a3950X. It is that I was considering assigning only 4 cores to UNRAID, leaving 4 to do whatever, assigning 1 to PROXMOX and that leaves 3 for VMs. I originally was planning to install PLEX as a VM but.. I think I'll just get a Raspberry 4 with 4 gigs of RAM for that. That is why I removed the video card, it was overkill and not needed. I would replace that 8X PCI-e with a 10 Gbit card eventually.

Hi, Thanks for your reply. Glad to hear you are able to run UNRAID as a VM. I'm sorry but I have to ask. Even though you can, if you had the choice, would you really run UNRAID as a VM or have a dedicated system? What made you decide to run UNRAID as a VM?

Understood. I do agree, they both server different purposes, and it would be like asking my NAS system to provide access to services it shouldn't really be providing in the first place. I do know UNRAID supports VMs and Docker but, it is like turning something a specialist into a generalist. Not ideal. thanks for the recommendation! Much appreciated!

Hi, Recently I have been thinking of building a UNRAID box. As I was talking to someone, he introduced me to Proxmox (as I was trying to build a Nethserver, told me I could probably think of putting that inside Proxmox, would be easy to clone it, make backups, bring it back if something goes wrong, etc). I was wondering. How easy is it to run UNRAID under Proxmox? Supposed this is something that can be done, I'm worried about performance. The machine I'm thinking to build is like this : AMD Ryzen 2700X or 3700X 64 gigs of ECC RAM 4 x 3 Tb Drives for Proxmox in Raid10 using the motherboards SATA ports (to run VMs) LSI SAS9200-8i in TI-MODE to service (to begin with) 4 x 6 Tb WD RED NAS drives ASUS X470 Crosshair VII Hero (Already had the board) 1 x Realktek 10 Gb ethernet card dedicated to 1 x QuadroPro video card (for PLEX) The video card would be using one of the PCI-E 8X slot. The other PCI-E 8X would be used by the LSI card and that leaves the PCI-E 4X for the 10 Gb NIC Card. Now I know, if I do this, that means my 10Gb will not be running to its full potential. The reason for the video card in there is to do some 4K transcoding with the PLEX. But I'm not sure I will be doing that. Perhaps I'm better off building a dedicated PLEX box instead. Anyways, if any of you tried to run UNRAID inside Proxmox, did it work well? Also feel free to constructively criticize the build I was thinking of doing. Thanks