Virtual Machine server

[RasmusDC]

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).. 

[SupaKomputa]

You don't need a new build. What you need is a gpu for offloading the transcoding.

[RasmusDC]

1 hour ago, SupaKomputa said:

You don't need a new build. What you need is a gpu for offloading the transcoding.

so running maybe 

 

Windows 10 VM

2-3 ubunto VM´s on a 4 core cpu / 8 threads, seems viable?

 

they are reserving the threads right.... really don´t want to introduce a GPU into my server setup?

[SupaKomputa]

why you need 3 vm?

put the low end processing on a 1-2 cores vm.

plex on the windows + gpu (or linux)

the other on the mid end vm with 2-3 cores.

with VT-D / AMD-V you can max out the core count on the vms, they still share the same cpu.

8 threads is pretty ok to run this, especially for home, where the users is less than a handful.