3 + 1 VM Setup

[PeteyBoPetey]

Hi Guys and Gals,

 

Complete newb here. 

 

My Hardware

 

Motherboard: Asus z490E pcie 3,0 with 2 8x slots, 1 4x slot and 3 1x slots

CPU: Intel 10700k

Ram: 48GB 2 sticks of 16 and 2 sticks of 8 = 48GB

Main Storage: 1x 1 TB NVMe with one NVMe slot empty

RAID Array: 8x 2 TB seagates connected via pice 3.0 x1 card

GPU: 2x Asus 2070 Super + Intels onboard

 

I'm a single dad who's kids come and stay from time to time. Instead of buying multiple PC's or gaming consoles, I wanted to set up 4 VMs on Unraid. But I'm not sure if it's possible?

 

I'd like Windows 10 VM1 to be running on it's own (on top of unraid of course) with the 2 2070's in SLI as a sole bare metal windows 10 machine.

 

When the kids come over I'd like to shut down VM1 and start VM 2, 3 and 4. VM 2 and 3 will have a 2070 each for my son and I to game on, and VM4 to use the CPU graphics for my daughter who watches YouTube and Netflix. So I'm splitting and sharing the GPUs with my son.

 

How do I set up the storage?. Just set up one big pool and set the NVMe as a cache then allocate a share to each VM?. Or Keep the 1 TB NVMe I have now as a bare metal hard drive for my VM1 and a second NVMe for the cache for the RAID pool?. I understand write speed are slow on unraid like RAID 5, can it be sped up by using an SSD as a parity drive?.

 

Also, if it's possible I'd like to run the latest Apple iOS just to stick it up my mate who is an Apple fan boy. I might even upgrade to a 10900k if it gives me a benchmark higher than the Mac Pro. I fuckin hate Apple. Capitalist cunts. $50 for a cable they paid some poor chinese guy $1 to make. :/ grrrr

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Pete