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I do it all the time, shut the vm's down, shutdown the host, swap CPU's, turn on on the server and that's it.

Yep

It depends on your hardware and what you want out of the product, like Mr. Humble say's Storage spaces might work just fine. If you want to go zfs route you are looking at FreeNas/nas4free/bare OS with zfs. You will need to post more info on the hardware you want to run it on.

I would recommend seafile instead of FTP, I use this software to host my own personal dropbox and backup my parents files.

Yeah you will be just fine.

Yeah this is usally because of NAT reflection, most of the time you can go into the console of the game and connect by local ip or depending on the game you modify the launch options to connect to the local ip address. Example if you are launch Ark through steam you modify the Launch options to do +connect ipaddress:port

If you have the CPU and the bandwidth (upload) from your ISP, I would recommend using Plex as the streaming application, it's pretty easy to setup https://www.plex.tv/

You will be fine, only forward the ports that are needed and just make sure you don't double NAT yourself by using a second router. You can use the windows firewall but you will be punching the same holes as the router but than you have the option to create a rule to deny the game server to access anything on the local subnet. If for whatever reason ur IP gets DDOS, do a hard reset on your modem or set the mac address in the router so your public ip changes (assumign ur ISP provides DHCP address.) Also don't put your computers IP address into the "DMZ" setting on your router, specifcally do portforwarding, enter the game server ip, call out if the port number is TCP, UDP or both, be very specfic about it.

Hardware: SERVER: IBM System x3650 M4 v2 CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2680 @ 2.70GHz RAM: 384GB NIC: 3 x Intel X540-T2 10GB Dual Port Ethernet Adapter RAID CARD 01: LSI SAS9207-8e 8-Port External HBA with "IT" firmware RAID CARD 02: LSI SAS9207-8e 8-Port External HBA with "IT" firmware RAID CARD 03: IBM M1015 with "IT" firmware STORAGE: 3 x 36 Bay SuperMicro CSE-847E26-R1400LPB SSD 01: 2 x 960GB ScanDisk Ultra II (SDSSDHI-960G) SSD 02: 6 x 1TB Samsung SSD 860 EVO (MZ-76E1T0B/AM) HHD 01: 66 x 5TB Toshiba X300 (HDWE150XZSTA) HHD 02: 18 x 8TB WD 8TB My Book (WDBBGB0080HBK-NESN) shucked Ultrastar He10-8 SATA (WD80EZAZ) SSD total capacity: 7.920TB (raw) HHD total capacity: 474TB (raw) Software and Configurations: My IBM server is running FreeNAS 11.1-U7, the IBM backplane is connected to the internal IBM M1015 with the six SSD drives. In freenas it's setup with four vdevs (mirrored) with two drives per vdev, which is used for the virtual machines. Next I have two LSI SAS9207-8e cards that connect externally with three SAS cables to the three 36 Bay SuperMicro CSE-847E26-R1400LPB which have a total of 84 drives. The 84 drives are setup in RAID-Z2, with 14 vdev's with six drives per vdev. I present both zpools to vmware using iscsi, and the RAID-Z2 pool is setup for SMB. Usage: I use the storage to run all my virtual machines in vmware and to hold my large media, basically I run my own personal dropbox (seafile), email, game servers etc. Backup: I backup all the virtual machines to my RAID-Z2 pool, external qnap device, gdrive and LTO-6 tape drive. Additonal info: I currently have three esxi hosts connected to this storage, each esxi hosts has two Intel X540-T2 10GB cards to give me 40GB throughput for each hosts. My ISP provides 10G internet connect to the house. Photo's/FreeNAS Info: pool: Raidz_2_SATA state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 1 days 19:02:24 with 0 errors on Tue Jul 16 19:02:30 2019 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM Raidz_2_SATA ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/c0d5e371-15a7-11e8-ab59-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/731d04df-9fd7-11e7-8ebe-3440b5b0233c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/25c4fcf6-9283-11e7-8ebe-3440b5b0233c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/e078d3f2-1bee-11e7-a096-3440b5b0233c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/707e7c41-891c-11e7-8d2a-3440b5b0233c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/dd4e684f-9f14-11e7-8ebe-3440b5b0233c ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/cf88ceb0-165c-11e8-ab59-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/08c08b57-1724-11e8-ab59-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/f57817a3-17f3-11e8-ab59-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/c266fc1a-18c9-11e8-ab59-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/a1d42969-193e-11e8-b2bc-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/ce9ac33c-19a5-11e8-b2bc-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/8a305bc3-b5fd-11e8-bc7a-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 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gptid/af9f90f6-9069-11e8-b9d5-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/b12bb3dd-9069-11e8-b9d5-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/b2c15ad1-9069-11e8-b9d5-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/b44ffec6-9069-11e8-b9d5-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/b5ebeadd-9069-11e8-b9d5-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/b7aa1120-9069-11e8-b9d5-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 pool: Raidz_VMware_SSD state: ONLINE scan: resilvered 467G in 0 days 00:24:06 with 0 errors on Fri Jul 19 19:45:32 2019 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM Raidz_VMware_SSD ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/e4a59571-aa7e-11e9-80cf-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/4584cc52-aa84-11e9-80cf-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/4dfca7d9-8da5-11e9-b1aa-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/799d7a4c-8e7a-11e9-b1aa-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-2 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/00ae5d7e-ec99-11e5-a41c-3440b5b0233c ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/02072c05-ec99-11e5-a41c-3440b5b0233c ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-3 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/3a47f312-a266-11e8-826f-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0 gptid/3b4a66a9-a266-11e8-826f-a0369f484a68 ONLINE 0 0 0