Server setup Coming from unraid
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Hello I have been messing around with unraid as a media server for a while and have been following along and I am ready to switch to XCP-ng as a learning and new hobby,
Hardware
x570d4u
Ryzen 3700x
32 ECC ram
2x 1Tb nvme
HBA Card
3 x 14Tb HDD
2 x sata 1TB SSD
I use this mostly as a media host but also have been using it as a windows 11 and ubuntu VMs Unraid was not the best at passthrough for GPU and hardwareCurrent plan
Doest the second set up make more sense for apps like nextcloud and Jellyfin or just run them in scale?
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I would run it in Scale if i were you. Ive read about people's set ups like this and there hasn't been any issues with it but It has been argued that virtualization of your storage underneath a hypervisor is dangerous. I don't know what type of pitfalls you might encounter with this but it will surely make recovery from a disaster a little more complicated. And with Scale being able to run VM's you can have the GPU passed through to your Win11 machine.
I presume you are transcoding in your Jellyfin? I use Plex and I pass through a GPU to it (but thats in esxi). Can you pass through your GPU to multiple devices to use for that? I know there is vGPU but I don't know if it can be used for transcoding. It would be interesting to try though