Server for virtual machines online.
Server for virtual machines online.
just curious, running a 4790K as a server today with 20gig of ram, it has a lot of functions. Unifi key Plex server (transcodes 4K) Cloud access Networked attaced drive and i am looking into more Steam Cache Print server (3d print farm) Home Automation HUB (running different solutions today) Survaillence hub now currently it´s fine, the 4790k can transcode 4K blurays to 1080p if needed, and my son can move things to his ipad, when we drive long trips, and it transcodes it in decent speeds, but i hate windows 10, even though i have tried to "limit" it, it still does wierd reboots, and things that are not really great. so would nice to have a linux frontend, that could reboot a VM remotely if it fails, and be able also to setup different enviroments, a plex server cloud access and most of these things are fine in a seperate VM enviroment in Linus but systemwise what would i need, i need the core performance of a 4790k, but i really am not ready for the cost of a threadripper.. have been looking at 12 core ryzen, or an older 1920x, then maybe just 32gigs of cheap DDR4 ram... (the boards however for ryzen 1920x are expensive) the PCI lanes however are important, since my 4790k are fully loaded, with an LSI 8x card, 10gig ethernet (4x) and NVME pci board (4x)..
you require three virtual machines for balanced performance. assign the simplest tasks to a low-end VM with just one or two cores. use plex on the Windows side and leverage the GPU (or Linux) on the mid-tier VM with 2-3 cores. enable VT-D or AMD-V to fully utilize available cores across all VMs, even though they share the same physical CPU. eight threads should suffice for this setup, especially since you're running it at home with a small number of users.