This is amazing! I'm in the process of building an Unraid Server to replace both my current plex server and gaming pc. I game very rarely (like once every few weeks) and so I was hoping to use a windows VM that had access to the majority of the resources on my unraid server, but would only need them for a while and would then free-up when not in use and hibernating (and then using wake on lan) to wake it up when needed again). Would this allow me to accomplish that?
Specs of my server:
i5-8500 (6 core, no HT)
16GB DDR4
1TB NVME Cache Drive
1TB NVME unassigned drive (was hoping to use this for windows vm/steam installs)
AMD RX6400
A bunch of bigger drives for the array
I obviously don't have enough cores/ram to just be assigning them away to a VM permanently, so would your method allow me to have my cake and eat it too?
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This is amazing! I'm in the process of building an Unraid Server to replace both my current plex server and gaming pc. I game very rarely (like once every few weeks) and so I was hoping to use a windows VM that had access to the majority of the resources on my unraid server, but would only need them for a while and would then free-up when not in use and hibernating (and then using wake on lan) to wake it up when needed again). Would this allow me to accomplish that?
Specs of my server:
i5-8500 (6 core, no HT)
16GB DDR4
1TB NVME Cache Drive
1TB NVME unassigned drive (was hoping to use this for windows vm/steam installs)
AMD RX6400
A bunch of bigger drives for the array
I obviously don't have enough cores/ram to just be assigning them away to a VM permanently, so would your method allow me to have my cake and eat it too?