isidro bastida Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 i was drawn to "virtualization" by mostly gaming. does unraid help at all in setting up a cybercafe of sorts? like having thin clients instead of running diskless which still consumes a lot of power and can still be expensive still, granting i have a beastly machine as a server running unraid. any thoughts on this? Quote Link to comment
MowMdown Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Yes and no. It's also very expensive. Quote Link to comment
SpaceInvaderOne Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 I have setup 3 gaming VMS on one x99 platform with a 14 core Xeon last year. Worked well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs6W3Xa_4cE&t=1s The Linus setup I think for real world is pointless. It was a great proof of concept and fun to see but not really a useful real-world build. The cost is unreasonable. It is far better if you want that amount of gaming VMs would be to have 2 or 3 servers which would run better and be easier to manage trouble shoot as well. And probably about a third of the cost. A problem you may have with running multiple VMs over a LAN is the LAN itself. Using thin clients to stream the gaming VMS will need a lot of bandwidth on the network so this could be a limiting factor with a lot of gaming VMs running over a LAN at once. It would depend on how many VMs are being streamed over the network at once. Also in Linus's 7 gamers if you were to stream all 7 at once over a LAN then they would all be using virtual NICs sharing the NICs on the server. Another reason why smaller servers would be better. Also, you could use a separate network and switch for each server, so you wouldn't have the same bandwidth problems if they all shared the same network. Quote Link to comment
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