Hi everybody,
First I want to tell I never had any experience with Unraid and VM's exept one time I had run macOS in Windows by VmWare.
Also I'm french so maybe i will make some spelling mistakes
My project is to centralise 2 windows gaming VMs into one PC and maybe also a NAS and a game server.
I read some tutos about Unraid, how it works, how to setup and globally I understand it but I still got questions.
I decided to choose an X299 platform, I got an ASRock X299 Taichi XE motherboard, 32Gb (4x 8Gb) of DDR4, 2x 500Gb 970 Evo Plus SSDs, 3 HDDs (2To, 3To, 4To)
I also got a Radeon VII and a Quadro M5000 wich I will probably switch for another Radeon VII.
I still need to choose the CPU : I want each machine got 8 threads so minimum 8C/16T CPUs.
I have as choice several CPUs : 7820X (16T 28lanes), 9800X (16T 44lanes), 7900X (20T 44lanes), 9900X (20T 44lanes), and all the other x299 Core X-Series.
I also want to make a NAS / Private game server combo for my files backup and to host games like Ark or Minecraft who needs 4 threads and a good cpu power.
So I want to get your thought about the best options to choose
I / Should I choose a CPU with even more cores or build two separate machines : one for gaming and the other one for the NAS and server ?
Also what about the power efficiency of a 8+ core 150+ W CPU for an all-time runing NAS and only few hours gamings and not everyday ?
II / Does Unraid need dedicated cores ? In some places I see YES , in some other I see NO ... So finally YES or NO ?
And for 2 VMs is it better to assign 8 threads each from 4 "real cores" or from 8 "real cores" ?
4 = VM1 0-1-2-3-8-9-10-11 / VM2 4-5-6-7-12-13-14-15 or 8 =VM1 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7 / VM2 8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15
III / Is it possible to share one vDisk (raid 0 of the 2 SSDs) as only one Steam Library for the 2 VMs with different Steam accounts ?
Or should I got one vDisk per VM , with almost the same files on it ?
IV / Can an optane 32G0 M.2 module be used as cache for an HDD ?
Thanks for reading me