3D development and testing machine partitioning

Will get for a project a Threadripper Pro 16 core machine with 128 GB RAM, 2x3090 GPU with NVLink connection, 2x1TB SSD (used for two OS), 2x4TB HDD (used for the two OS data)

Primary OS will be Ubuntu but Windows will be available on the second SSD

Will be used to develop, test, demo 3D realtime applications based on Vulkan and CUDA compute

There are two activities why I was thinking to partition it

- concurrent 3D development and testing from two remote specialists, one working on Linux the other on Windows. They will need to have access to all the OS and their environment allocated hw for development and testing

- 3D asset optimization from another remote specialist, working using Digital Content Creation tools such as Blender, will need to have access only to his specific application without being able to save or transfer data elsewhere other than local disks (will be working on very expensive and proprietary digital assets)

So I was thinking something about 3 VM: one Linux, one Windows and the third need to decide since will need just an application.

This will be not a 24/7 "production" machine, but due the fact they will work on different time zones I can expect will be used in a 18 hours time span

Wanted to ask based on the community experience if Unraid can make sense in such a context.

I have no experience in VMs management, just thinking about a easy to start management system that allow also some flexibility (i.e. GPU partitioning) to test also some not officially supported configurations.

Edited March 28, 20224 yr by davide445