June 2, 201610 yr My current setup which has been running strong for 4-5 years: --mobo- ASRock Z77 Pro3 --cpu- i5 3570k --gpu- HIS 6570 Silence 2GB DDR3 PCI-E DVI/HDMI/VGA --RAM- 16GB --RAID card- 3Ware 9650SE-24M8 24-port ------10TB Raid 5 only using 12 disks right now --OS disk- 320gb SSD --Win7-64 running the following: ------Plex Media Server (serving anywhere from 0-3 local or remote clients at once, include often transcoding) ------Plex Home Theater - have this running on 2nd monitor aka my home theater projector ------BlueIris w/ 5 Hikvision 1080p cams @ 20fps, direct to disc enabled, using motion sensing feature to trigger recordings. This needs to be running stable 24/7 ------HomeSeer HS3Pro (home automation software) this needs to be running stable 24/7 The plan My plan is to add another 12 disks and move to unRAID, then run one or more windows VMs on top of it for the software use-cases described above. I've never run unRAID and never set up or used a VM, but I'm pretty savvy and have read up a bit and looks like something I can figure out. Questions: My hardware as it's currently configured can handle all of the software use cases above fairly easily, I rarely have performance issues. Does that mean I will likely have the same luck when those programs are running on windows VM(s) on top of unRAID? Does this sound like something that unRAID and my hardware can handle? Are there any specific issues that I could encounter? Anything specific I should be keeping in mind as I begin setting everything up? I need to be able to use my video card's HDMI output to feed my home theater AVR and projector 1080p video and the latest and greatest audio formats. This shouldn't be a problem to do through a VM right?
June 3, 201610 yr I think there is no Problem for your Setup. But... You need the internal GPU for the Console from Unraid. Then you have to passthrough your PCIe Card to your Windows OS for your use with Blueiris and Plex Theater. You also have to try, if your RAID Controller Cards works with UNRAID. Use the SSD as a cache drive. The VM should run on from the cache drive. I think its better to buy a second ssd drive. So you have a cache pool. You can also use the Docker function from UNRAID to run your Plex Media Server.
June 3, 201610 yr I think there is no Problem for your Setup. But... You need the internal GPU for the Console from Unraid. Then you have to passthrough your PCIe Card to your Windows OS for your use with Blueiris and Plex Theater. You also have to try, if your RAID Controller Cards works with UNRAID. Use the SSD as a cache drive. The VM should run on from the cache drive. I think its better to buy a second ssd drive. So you have a cache pool. You can also use the Docker function from UNRAID to run your Plex Media Server. Not quite. The i5-3570k does not support vt-d which enables device passthrough to a VM (i.e. PCIe cards).
June 3, 201610 yr Not quite. The i5-3570k does not support vt-d which enables device passthrough to a VM (i.e. PCIe cards). you're right. I have not thought of . I have been a step too far
June 3, 201610 yr Author I do have another SSD I was planning to use for cache pool. I thought my proc had VT-d but it looks like I got that confused with VT-x. Damnit. I do have another PC in the house that looks like it would support VT-d. I can probably use that. -- Intel DP55WB mobo (supports VT-d) -- Intel Core i7-860 2.8GHz (supports VT-d) -- Radeon 5850 GPU --4GB RAM (I'd have to buy/add more) My only concern is that this other proc is old as hell (purchased October 2009) and it's a discontinued socket (LGA1156) so when it fails I'm stuck buying old overpriced replacement parts. If my hardware fails and I decide to buy all new latest-generation mobo/proc, can I just plug the existing unRAID disks and flash-drive and have it all work on the new hardware or is the install tied to the mobo somehow? Would I have to start over w/ my VMs as well or just update the configs for the new hardware? Really want to utilize existing hardware....but if it's going to end up causing me a huge headache down the road then I'll suck it up and buy new gear now. What do yall think?
June 8, 201610 yr In my case I'm going to buy a cheap Dell Optiplex/HP EliteDesk containing an i5 4590 purely for Blue Iris (in or around the €300/$300 mark). It greatly benefits from the integrated 4000 series graphics. I've been reading and BI on a VM is not the best solution so I'm going to keep it off my unRAID machine.
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