ruthlessone Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 I have a rack mount server with 2 dual-core AMD CPUs and 11 disks in the array. 8GB of ram. The CPUs don't support VM. And I really want to keep this server just doing the work of a file server. Currently it's doing SAB Sonarr Plex Deluge Couch etc.. I have an i5 HTPC machine with an SSD a couple 2TB drives and 32GB of RAM that I am no longer using since I bought the Xbox One and it got PLEX. I was thinking I would parse out the SAB Sonarr Plex Deluge Couch duties to the beefier i5 box as well as VMs.. Question is.. How do I connect the 2 boxes to work together? I am on a gigabit network, I also have 2 NIC cards in the main server. Link to comment
garycase Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 The i5 doesn't need to run UnRAID => just install Windows, Linux, or whatever you'd like and set it up to run your CPU-intensive apps. Then use your rack-mount UnRAID server as a NAS for the "applications box" to store its data on. Link to comment
garycase Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 I noticed you posted a duplicate of this question in the "Compulsive Design" area. No need for two identical questions - so I've deleted the other post. If you'd rather this question be moved to that area just say so and I can do that. Link to comment
ruthlessone Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 For the second I think I would like to run Unraid as well. I like the stable nature of it and definitely don't want windows, I want to run dockers and VM etc.. I don't want or need linux Assuming I want to use UnRaid, how do I share the filesystem with the beefier UnRaid system? How do I connect the first as a NAS? I read a few months ago that you could/should connect with NFS Shares.. Any insight? That's fine to delete from the other area, just thought I would get 2 different schools of thought, one from support forum and one from system designers. Link to comment
ruthlessone Posted May 26, 2015 Author Share Posted May 26, 2015 Anyone have any other ideas? Link to comment
garycase Posted May 26, 2015 Share Posted May 26, 2015 I haven't tried it, but I'd assume you can "point" Dockers to your network shares on the other UnRAID box. You can certainly do that with VM's. Link to comment
Squid Posted May 27, 2015 Share Posted May 27, 2015 I haven't tried it, but I'd assume you can "point" Dockers to your network shares on the other UnRAID box. You can certainly do that with VM's. I do this on pretty much of all my containers. Only one of my servers actually runs containers, and I just use the samba shares to access the others. You just have to mount the samba shares on the server that runs the containers. Link to comment
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