Hello,

I have had an UNRAID server for a few years now and was recently gifted an old Poweredge R710. It was free and has substantially more cores and RAM than my old server, just an old gaming rig converted into a server.

 

My original goal was to use the R710 for VM's, game server hosting, and general thing of that nature that would benefit from the higher RAM capacity, and to leave my old server still running my PLEX, Sonarr/Radarr, bitwarden, and everything else that I have been using so I didn't have to worry about transferring files or anything.
 

Now that I have had some time to play with the new server and experiment with a couple of things, I'm noticing that it's not as straight forward as I had thought it was going to be. So here is a list of the questions I have so far and was wondering if anyone would be able to lend a hand or point me in the proper direction to figure out where I should start:

 

I have a domain that I am using for all of my services on my old server.

   - Can I use the same domain for both servers? (I feel like that's an ignorance issue on my part) 

   - Since I can't port forward the same ports on both server IP's, ie. 80/443 for NGINXProxyManager, do I need to bite the bullet and just move everything that requires NGINXProxyManager to my new server? Is there a way to have NGINXProxyManger running on both machines without conflict?

   - I was thinking of moving my PLEX server to my R710 and leave the library on my old server, 1) is there any issues with doing that, and 2) if so, what is the best way to accomplish that? Right now I have my media share set to secure on my old server, Do I need to add a user to my new server that has access to that share?

 

My other thought is to just use my R710 as my main server and use my old server just as a file storage machine for the time being until I can upgrade the HDD in the R710, I need to get an HBA so I can use drives larger than 2T. Would this be the "easier" way to deal with these "issues" I'm having? If so, I still would like some assistance with the file sharing between the 2 servers.

 

Right now that is all I have come across, but I will be sure to add any questions as I have them. Thanks in advance for any help.

Believe you are overthinking some of this.  You can use your current domain and NPM to connect to any device on your network.  In NPM, enter the Forward Hostname/IP and Forward Port of the other server (and appropriate entry in your domain DNS).  I do this to connect to several devices in my network.  Much easier to manage, as everything is in one place.

 

As for Plex, ideally you have both the server application and the media on the same machine.  You can put the data on any machine you can access from the Plex server (even out on the cloud) but you then are increasing network activity and also have the reduction of access speed inherent with the network.  More complexity and the increased potential for buffering.