Current Hardware

 

Asus X10PE-D8WS

XEON E5-2697 v3 X2

128 GB EEC DDR4 -Crucial

1x TitanX Pascal

1x TitanX Maxwell

2X 980 Maxwell

 

Storage

5x WDBlue 3tb HDD

2x Sandisk Ulta 960GB SSD

1x Sandisk Ultra 480 SSD

 

 

I wish to have 4 VM's Running windows 10, Each with it's own dedicated GPU, with network access to each other, however not the internet.

I wish all VM's to be controlled with 1 KB/Mouse, and to output to 1-2 Monitors. 

I want to be able to switch between 1 Vm's with a hot key or similar.

I wish to have a storage pool available to the VM's however not the internet

I wish to have a additional storage pool available to the VM's and the internet/lan.

 

I have done a bit of reading, and it looks like Unraid may be the right solution for me, however i wish to be sure.

Do I need a additional GPU for Unraid ? - a ATI/AMD one ? To act as a header of sort.  Would a simple device such as a 5450 be suitable ?

 

How much performance degradation would I expect from each virtual system apposed to them being bare metal ? - Each would effectively have 7 cpu cores, 32gb ram and 1 GPU.  Mainly Cuda calculations will be done.

 

Apart from Unraid license, 4 windows licenses and the amd card, is there anything else which would need to be purchased before embarking ?

 

Any Tips or points to avoid would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

I cannot really answer you, but have you seen this video?

 

http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=LXOaCkbt4lI (remote the space as this forum mix up with links)

 

The guy achieved pretty much what you want I guess.

-I wish to have 4 VM's Running windows 10, Each with it's own dedicated GPU, with network access to each other, however not the internet.

You can set the VMs up, then change the network configuration inside the VM to not have a gateway IP address, this MIGHT do what you want, you you don't want internet access for the unRAID box as a whole, and do not need LAN access then you can simply not plug it into a network. However, I haven't personally tried any of that to know for 100% that it would work.

 

-I wish all VM's to be controlled with 1 KB/Mouse, and to output to 1-2 Monitors. 

You would need a physical KVM switcher (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) that has 4 inputs. You would also need to pass a USB controller to each VM, either on the motherboard or as a physical card.

 

-I want to be able to switch between 1 Vm's with a hot key or similar.

This would be a function of the above KVM.

 

-I wish to have a storage pool available to the VM's however not the internet

Make a share on unRAID and set up a user account on unRAID that is only provided to the VMs.

 

-I wish to have a additional storage pool available to the VM's and the internet/lan.

Passing a share out to the internet is generally not considered secure in any way. You can setup an additional share that has different restrictions.

 

You may want to look at ESXi as a solution... however, I think you will still have the issue with desktop switching requiring a physical KVM and USB pass through.

You may want to look at ESXi as a solution... however, I think you will still have the issue with desktop switching requiring a physical KVM and USB pass through.

You could install something like Synergy on the VMs to share the kb/mouse without a KVM  http://symless.com/synergy/