is it generally accepted as "proper" to run third-party services directly on a WHS2011 install? my current WHSv1 server is currently running Playon (transcoding web video sources on demand via DLNA), OpenVPN service, and Subsonic music streamer (also capable of transcoding on the fly based on the client).
My original concept with my upcoming build was to utilize a Xeon X3440 with hyper-v server installed and use WHS2011 as one guest (2 physical cores allocated, 8GB RAM allocated) and another Win7Pro guest (2 physcial cores allocated, 8GB RAM allocated). I would leave WHS2011 clean, pristine, and stock. The win7Pro Vm would host these services as well as do handbrake x264 encoding (and sometimes I use ripbot for camcorder footage).
I read something the other day on an old STH post that actually mentioned using WHS's idle cycle for handbrake runs.
so, what is the general opinion out there in the world (at least in the world of STH forums)? is it best to keep a WHS install stock, or is adding these additional services not hurting anything?
the driver for this is knowing that if i can let x264 encode with 4 cores / 8 threads, that'll make me very happy
any considerations I need to make with the disk arrangements? (i havent quite nailed down what I'm doing yet, but raid 5/6 is probably outside of my budget for the first phase of the build)
Thanks for all the advice!
Jeremy
My original concept with my upcoming build was to utilize a Xeon X3440 with hyper-v server installed and use WHS2011 as one guest (2 physical cores allocated, 8GB RAM allocated) and another Win7Pro guest (2 physcial cores allocated, 8GB RAM allocated). I would leave WHS2011 clean, pristine, and stock. The win7Pro Vm would host these services as well as do handbrake x264 encoding (and sometimes I use ripbot for camcorder footage).
I read something the other day on an old STH post that actually mentioned using WHS's idle cycle for handbrake runs.
so, what is the general opinion out there in the world (at least in the world of STH forums)? is it best to keep a WHS install stock, or is adding these additional services not hurting anything?
the driver for this is knowing that if i can let x264 encode with 4 cores / 8 threads, that'll make me very happy
any considerations I need to make with the disk arrangements? (i havent quite nailed down what I'm doing yet, but raid 5/6 is probably outside of my budget for the first phase of the build)
Thanks for all the advice!
Jeremy