Unraid vs other hypervisors like XCP-ng

[lanceharvie]

Hi Folks,

 

I've been using unraid in my home lab for over a year and had no real problems - I'm running on a 6 core Intel CPU with 64 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD drive.

 

I'm looking to build a unraid server for production use with a 64 core CPU + 256 GB of RAM and 24TB of harddisk + 8TB Cache drives.

 

My applications will require VM's mostly to run up business app like website hosting, machine learning app and mail server etc with some docker containers too.

 

I need a very robust hypervisor which is very efficient and reliable with backup options - I've looked at a number of hypervisors like XCP-ng and run a few up in a test setting.  Results have been good however I really like the Unraid UI and community but not sure if KVM is the optimum hypervisor out there.

 

My question to the community is Unraid a good option for my use case and are there better hypervisor options?

 

Cheers

 

[BSGNETS]

I run XCP-ng as my main hypervisor. To me the backup options that are available using Xen Orchestra community edition, are very useful it has saved me many hours of work. Unraid is very solid so don't get me wrong. I've just started using XCP-ng before it was XCP-ng when ZenServer was still free.