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Virtualization - newbie

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I am currently looking to get into virtualization and I want to build a new rig to do so but I am a complete newbie to this and wanted to ask you guys if it’s worth it for me. This is what I want my VM to do:

1 – CCTV server, 8 x 1080HD IP cameras (CPU intensive)
2 – NAS / Media center (house all my media and distribute to other PCs throughout house)
3 – Automation software
4 – Test and play around with linux (never used before) and expand to other things in future.

Is esxi the way to go for me or do you recommend another route?
 
Quartz-1 said:
And presumably it's disk intensive too. As such it should be hived off to a separate box.
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What are the pros/cons of doing this as a vm versus going to a dedicated rig?

I am trying to grasp the entire picture of vitrualization.
 
Virtualisation is in large part about efficiency of resource usage and ease of management thereof. Your CCTV server is going to be hogging a lot of the resources a lot of the time. It's going to suffer from being interrupted. It's not going to play nice. Your other three uses are relatively light loads on average and so will play nice with each other.
 
Any negatives or problems using a VM with unraid (passing down IBM M1015)?
 
If you have four or more disks its easy. Set up separate luns, one for CCTV and the rest for everything else. I used to use an i3 with 24gb of ram and 4 1tb HDD in raid 10 for a file server, db, router/firewall, backtrack Linux, 2 win7, addc, and DNS. All those were separate vms and I never had a problem running them. 2 vcores to everything but the router has only 1, and everything had 2gb ram assigned, but the servers had either 3 or 4. Never have a problem with any lag
 
Its best to use raid 1 or 10 instead of 5 or 6 for performance and reliability too. In my server I have 2 raid 10 arrays and one raid 1 array. When I had a disk fail I could still access and transfer everything and still had the option of plugging it into a workstation to get everything off without worrying about data loss. You may only have half the disk capacity, but you add redundancy and better read performance
 
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