April 4, 201610 yr I provide a family type tech support for a business. Currently the business (small business, tech wise) runs a windows home server 2011. I really hate Windows Home server 2011. The Windows Home Server 2011 provides storage for music files (it is a dance studio) for sonos. It also provides a place to backup computers to and it displays powerpoint presentations to 2 tv's. I am thinking of changing the things. I really like Unraid V6. SO my thoughts are to create a Unraid Plus server (they don't need a ton of storage but more than they have now). Unraid would provide the needed storage. Next I would install a KVM Hypervisor and host a small lightweight linux OS and use an open source powerpoint viewer. I looks as though I can pass a gpu through to get the necessary video. Thoughts on the idea/setup.
April 4, 201610 yr Is the current setup working? Is there a compelling reason (other then your dislike for whs 2011) to change it? If it ain't broke don't fix it.
April 4, 201610 yr Author They are running out of space. Server 2011 doesn't have the best redundancy. Microsoft Licensing. I like the stability of Unraid (have used it for years). Unraid V6 brings about quite the change. There setup is working but I will need to add more storage. It currently runs on an atom processor so I will need to look at the specs (64bit or not) and ram thus the thinking of a lightweight linux OS.
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