I will be moving my unraid setup to my threadripper 1950X build and combining it with the gaming pc that is running on it. As the unrad server setup right now is using 7 drives, GPU for plex and DVD/BD drive for makeMKV, I will be moving all the drives to a HBA card and have the DVD/BD drives connected to the motherboard. The gaming computer is quite happy running in a VM on another unraid setup. What I would like to do is have unraid and the gaming computer all running in proxmox in separate environments, the only thing I just need to sort out is getting DVD/BD drives passed to the unraid VM, but I am happy running unraid then have all VM inside it.

 

Are there any nay benefits to having proxmox running on the metal with everything in a VM, or is it better to just run unraid on the metal and setup VM computers inside unraid

 

 

7 hours ago, crash987_9 said:

Are there any nay benefits to having proxmox running on the metal with everything in a VM, or is it better to just run unraid on the metal and setup VM computers inside unraid

it depends..

if you have to restart unraid, then all your VMs/containers will do the same..

i'm running unraid on top of Proxmox, and it runs just fine - for me Proxmox is with more options cos it's pure debian. so on Proxmox VMs/LXC, while on unraid storage and Docker.

if you run unraid as VM it's recoomended that you pass-through all needed devices to VM.. look at your hardware for this option..