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Moving Plex from official Plex-Media-Server docker to Windows VM


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Apologies if there is a specific topic this should be filed under, but it dips its toes in a few spaces and I wasn't sure where to post it.

 

The TLDR is, looking for the best way to move my Plex server from a docker container on Unraid to a Windows 10 VM on the same Unraid machine.

 

Presently I am running Unraid on an "old" desktop PC (Ryzen 5900x/32GB RAM/GTX 1060 6GB/2 1TB nvme's cache/1 512 GB SSD for Unraid cache/5 HDD's connected to a Dell H200 HBA in IT mode). My partner uses a Mac and my hope is to have a Windows 10 VM for her to play games on. The graphics card is presently being used for Plex transcoding via docker, and I would like to continue using it for that overall purpose. However (please correct me if I'm wrong on this), if I want to use it for gaming on the VM, it can't simultaneously be assigned to the Docker container, however it CAN be used in the VM if I shift my Plex server to run there.

 

I would love to put an additional graphics card into the machine (and likely will upgrade the 1060 at some point), however, the motherboard (MSI x570 MPG Gaming Edge Wifi) only has 2 PCIE x16 slots and 3 x1 slots, so with the HBA in play (which I believe I need though going to double-check my cabling), only one graphics card "fits" (for sake of argument, please assume that is the case).

 

So, that all said, as noted before, I am using an SSD for Plex metadata via unassigned drives. It does have plenty of room still (using about 75GB for this out of 500GB). Is there an "easy" way to move my Plex instance from Unraid to this VM? Ideally I don't want to change configs for my users, and have to rebuild the database. Not the end of the world if so, but I don't want to overcomplicate something that may be simpler than I am making it.

 

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

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