dgwharrison

Hi, so how does one connect to the VMs? By Windows Remote Desktop (RDP), or is it by steamlink or something? Most notably can I use my Mac as a display?

Tiered SSD>HDD storage pools in windows that work like fusion drive in Windows 10 by powershell. For a longer Video, you could do a 'build the ultimate plex server' featuring say NVMe SSDs caching Large HDDs with no striping or mirroring (because you can just RIP the 4K Bluray you bought again right?). So basically you have like 4 12TB Storage Spaces Volumes, each with it's own 256GB SSD. This way if anything fails you only have to re-rip a small bunch of stuff (especially if sonarr and radarr are helping out) rather than every single thing, but also you don't have the slowness of parity and the cost of mirror.

By the way, if LTT did a youtube video on this it would be totally awesome. Build the ultimate Plex Server!!!!

@ajnozari would Kindly post the powershell you used? I can't get @Catsrules's solution to work at all. For me the command (using @Catsrules script naming) should be: $vdisk1 = New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool1 -FriendlyName Tiered_Space -StorageTiers @($tier_ssd, $tier_hdd) -StorageTierSizes @(100GB, 250GB) -WriteCacheSize 25GB ( I added the write cache, want lots of that I think) However I get: PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $vdisk1 = New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool1 -FriendlyName Tiered_Space -StorageTiers @($tier_ssd, $tier_hdd) -StorageTierSizes @(100GB, 250GB) -WriteCacheSize 25GB New-VirtualDisk : Not Supported Extended information: The storage pool does not have sufficient eligible resources for the creation of the specified virtual disk. Recommended Actions: - Choose a combination of FaultDomainAwareness and NumberOfDataCopies (or PhysicalDiskRedundancy) supported by the storage pool. - Choose a value for NumberOfColumns that is less than or equal to the number of physical disks in the storage fault domain selected for the virtual disk. Activity ID: {e7cdb08e-4b61-468c-8d17-ab4dd3b8f13c} At line:1 char:11 + $vdisk1 = New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool1 -Frien ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (StorageWMI:ROOT/Microsoft/...SFT_StoragePool) [New-VirtualDisk], CimException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : StorageWMI 1,New-VirtualDisk PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> At the moment I'm playing around in a VM which might have something to do with it. However what I'm trying to achieve is I want to build a box with several independent 12TB (not striped) each with their own SSD WriteCache and hot block area. Kind of like a Mac Fusion Drive. I want to host plex and I want to serve 4K content and not have a write of say a 4K movie interrupt the 4K movie I'm watching. What I would ultimately like to achieve is creating some VHDXs on a larger SSD and using them as the tiers on each disk pool (pool having only one VHDX SSD and a 12TB HDD), but given I can't make this work that seems unlikely so I was planning on buying small PCIe SSDs and a PCIE to SSD M.2 adaptor card.