I currently use unRAID and it's great, but my NAS has grown into a much more, robust, home server which unRAID docker's can no longer 100% support.

 

I now have a few options.

 

1. Keep unRAID.  Continue using dockers and add a VM for necessary applications that I cannot use with docker.

 

2. Keep unRAID.  Transfer all applications to a VM like Debian or Ubuntu Server.

 

3. Ditch unRAID.  Allow Debian or Ubuntu Server to run under a RAID 5 configuration and have all of the applications under the host operating system.

 

If I choose options #1 or #2, how do I go about choosing resource allocations?  Let's assume #2, and I put all of my applications like CouchPotato, NZBget, Sonarr, MythTV, Transmission, etc. all on the VM.  Then the only thing the dom0 (unRAID) is doing is storing files.  What % of the CPU/RAM etc. do I then give to the VM since it's handling the majority of the work?

 

Thanks for all the advice.  Great community here.

 

 

Another concern I have with Docker, is if I'm not mistaken, aren't you stuck with the version of the program that the docker was created with.

 

Obviously on an Ubuntu Server, you'd be able to do a quick apt-get update, but if it's all encompassed in the docker, doesn't that leave you with limited flexibility in regards to updating the software?

Whatever route you go, don't start with Xen. It looks like it's going to be removed from unRAID;

 

https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=39412.0

 

You'd need to be considering KVM.

 

 

Another concern I have with Docker, is if I'm not mistaken, aren't you stuck with the version of the program that the docker was created with.

 

Obviously on an Ubuntu Server, you'd be able to do a quick apt-get update, but if it's all encompassed in the docker, doesn't that leave you with limited flexibility in regards to updating the software?

Depends on the docker. I use needo's NZBget docker, and it will let you specify the version of the application you want it to download/build.