Question regarding setup

[kevin28115]

Hi, I was wanting to get some advice from the community for how would you guys set up for something listed below all on the same computer.

 

network file sharing (unraid?) kind of want to put multiple drives together to show up at 1 letter on the network drive (plus an easy way to add additional storage as time goes).

Game server hosting: terraria, factorio, TF2, etc
plex server (not as important but nice to have)

torrent client

 

I'm not sure if the way to set up would be something like Unraid + Windows in a VM or some other method.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Get a hypervisor and install all the roles in seprate vms. unraid may work well here. Im more of a proxmox guy and I like how zfs works.

[Jarno.]

8 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Get a hypervisor and install all the roles in seprate vms. unraid may work well here. Im more of a proxmox guy and I like how zfs works.

There are many hypervisors you can go with. Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, KVM, XEN, LXD, Proxmox, Unraid, Docker and FreeNAS. Depends at the requirements what might be best for you. Also you might like Proxmox and FreeNAS more when you want a more "one-click-solution". If you don't mind to mess around a bit I would recommend KVM. I like the minimalistic approach without a GUI but you can use remote graphical tools when you need them. You can pretty much compare it with Windows headless server.

[kevin28115]

so essentially install unraid or something similar first for the file stuff and then windows server in a vm on top of that.

 

Also can someone explain what dockers are and can they run in unraid?