Jim Beam Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Its been a while since i looked at UNRAID, but now 6.2 is here with 2 parities and 30 drives etc, well its time to get on with this and get er done. I need to do several things on one server setup - OK, so VM's. Do i install UNRAID on bare metal and then run the other VM's on top of UNRAID OR Could i setup a hypervisor on bare metal and run UNRAID in a VM ? I am pretty sure its install UNRAID as the base OS and run VM's from there, but just want to make sure i have this right as i try to figure out how to do what i want to do. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 You're correct => you install UnRAID, and then create the VM's to run from there. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 FWIW it is possible to run UnRAID as a virtual machine -- several users on this forum run ESXi as their bare metal hypervisor and run UnRAID as a virtual machine. But with the newest version's built-in hypervisor most users who run virtual machines do so using UnRAID's built-in support. Quote Link to comment
Jim Beam Posted December 31, 2016 Author Share Posted December 31, 2016 Thanks Gary. Goldmine of information as always. Right, so off the the UNRAID hypervisor sub forum i go. If you dont mind, what are the pro's/cons of either way? Will the built in Hypervisor give better performance to the other VM's or just make UNRAID perform better? I need to get this basic concept right before i go too much further. I want to spec and purchase hardware so knowing how i should be setting up helps. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Given the same hardware, I think either way does well with VM performance. Most UnRAID users prefer to let UnRAID manage their VM's, and I do think Limetech has put a lot of effort into creating a nice VM manager. The only significant advantage I can think of for ESXi is that all of the VM's are completely independent -- including UnRAID. If you're using UnRAID as the hypervisor, then you can't shut down UnRAID without killing all of the VM's. But for most users, that's not a significant factor. Quote Link to comment
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