October 6, 20169 yr Hi Guys, so far i have only been playing with Unraid on a small nettop to see what its like and i like it previously i have been running whs2011 on a hp microserver then bought a Lenovo Thinkstation s20 and put server 2012 on it (and i dont like it at all!) i have a dynamic dns address through my router and use open vpn for access also anyway, im looking for advice on the best way to set this up on the Lenovo s20 CPU- xeon E5645 2.40GHz 6 core 12 thread RAM - 24gb Graphics - Nvidia Dual Screen Graphics - Dual VGA 256MB AND a decent one with hdmi output for my main vm 1 esata port 5 sata ports my available hardware are drives - 6 x 2tb 2 x 3tb 1 x 1tb 1 x 240gb SSD and 1 esata dock with 1 drive slot a 1gb graphics card with hdmi 2 thin clients and possibly a more powerful one with a hdmi / displayport output for my 55" tv What i Need, storage (obviously) and maybe remote access to the shares as my partner and i work away often and map my current shares to our laptops she will also need a small time machine backup for her macbook 500gb max 1 main windows 7 vm for myself to use, with 2/3 remote users able to connect together (my partner may use this vm for a small amount of photoshop) 1 secondary linux vm where i will only run my Unifi access point server (it is still running on my whs2011 box right now) i will then utilise the remaining drives by re using my hp microserver and have it as a backup solution for the unraid folders ok, i was thinking out of the resources that i have, unraid 2 cores & remaining ram 4x 2tb for storage 1x 240gb ssd for cache and 1x 3tb in the esata dock for parity 1 windows 7 vm - 8 cores & 12 gb ram linux vm - 2 cores and 2/4 gb ram eventually i will play with plex, but its not immediate. (1.5tb of movies stored on my network storage so far) questions. 1, does unraid need a gpu? the motherboard has no onboard graphics 2, if i use the 2nd gpu for my windows vm passthrough, and connect locally to my tv via hdmi, how easy is it to pass through all other usb devices to this vm? if not, i will purchase a better quality thin client and use this with hdmi/displayport out and usb3.0 3, i am planning on changing the 1 port esata dock to a 4 port eventually, will adding drives to the array be simple? 4, is it possible to set up that only certain shares are accessible outside of the local lan, to be mounted on remote devices using DDNS address? 5, is there a guide on how to backup the shares? 6, can anyone think of a better way to do these things, if i have said something wrong? oh and...thanks for reading this sorry for boring you all
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