Background:
I recently bought a Supermicro H8QGL-iF with plans to have it as a pure folding machine. However, I recently took another look at my QNAP 659Pro+ and noticed that not only is it almost at capacity (350GB remaining from 6x2TB Raid 5 [9.5TB]), it's constantly above 75% RAM and 50% utilisation doing all the various multimedia duties (usenet downloading/processing, XBMC MySQL DB) and webservice stuff (squid, website backups, running a couple of intranet sites)
So I figure I'll go the VM route with this board, setting the folding to 3/4 CPU's, and virtualising the rest of my stuff.
I'm looking at shifting from webservice Squid, to running PfSense with Squid in it, a separate VM for usenet downloading/processing with data offload to the NAS. All the routing stuff is handled by my router (Billion 7800N) which is fine for now, but could possibly move it to VM if requires (i think that's also in pf-sense?)
Actual question:
So, my question is what VM's other people are generally running?
I recently bought a Supermicro H8QGL-iF with plans to have it as a pure folding machine. However, I recently took another look at my QNAP 659Pro+ and noticed that not only is it almost at capacity (350GB remaining from 6x2TB Raid 5 [9.5TB]), it's constantly above 75% RAM and 50% utilisation doing all the various multimedia duties (usenet downloading/processing, XBMC MySQL DB) and webservice stuff (squid, website backups, running a couple of intranet sites)
So I figure I'll go the VM route with this board, setting the folding to 3/4 CPU's, and virtualising the rest of my stuff.
I'm looking at shifting from webservice Squid, to running PfSense with Squid in it, a separate VM for usenet downloading/processing with data offload to the NAS. All the routing stuff is handled by my router (Billion 7800N) which is fine for now, but could possibly move it to VM if requires (i think that's also in pf-sense?)
Actual question:
So, my question is what VM's other people are generally running?