Hello,

 

I am planing a VM "server". First of all what I'm planing to do is to have 4 VMs:

 

[*]"Work VM": everything work related. I'm a Software Developer and Project Manager. Debian 8

[*]"Work VM Dev": a clone of the "Work VM" but for testing new features, updates etc. Debian 8+

[*]"Game VM": Windows games nothing to fancy mainly Diablo 3 and World of Warcraft. Win 10

[*]"Private VM": My daily driver. Debian 8

 

My current system (2600K, 8GB, 250 GB 840) however can't handle it because of A. no VT-d and B. not enough RAM. So after 5 years of use I'm planing a new one. I wanted to wait until Skylake-E or Skylake-EP came out but I don't see any advantage in doing so anymore.

 

So I configured a ECC and non-ECC system. I will only post the ECC system because the price difference is only around 135-140 € so I'll go with that.

 

CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4, 6x 3.60GHz, boxed (BX80660E51650V4)

RAM: Kingston ValueRAM DIMM Kit 32GB, DDR4-2400, CL17-17-17, reg ECC (KVR24R17S8K4/32)

Board: ASRock Rack EPC612D4U (I thought about going with the EPC612D4U-2T8R but I don't need 10 GBit within the next 5 years)

Flash drive: SanDisk Cruzer Fit 8GB

SSD: 850 Evo 1 TB

 

What I will take from the old system:

 

PSU: Seasonic X-Series Fanless X-460FL 460W

Case: Aerocool DS Cube

Cooling: Custom kit from Alphacool

GPU: EVGA GTX 660 Ti FTW Signature 2

Display: Dell U2713H

 

So what do you think of this build? Is it ok or should I buy something else, do you see any problem with the hardware and unraid or will it work with my proposed use case?

 

Looking forward to hearing from you

You might want more RAM, depending on the RAM requirement of the 4 VMs and the likely hood of running multiple VMs at once.

 

You only have 1 GPU (assuming the mobo has integrated GPU that can be used for unRAID console), presumably for the gaming VM. How would you access the other 3 VMs? Because if you want to run more than 1 concurrently, you will have to RDP in -> is that acceptable?

Not sure about more RAM. My work computer has 16 GB and I don't feel it compared to the 8 GB at home. So 32 GB should be enough.

 

Yeah RDP/VNC could be viable. Maybe I could buy a PCIe 1x GPU to make it more easy.