Clunt Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 Hi All, I'm finally getting to set up my Gen8. It has a E3 1265L@2.4, 16gb ram, 2xsamsung 840 SSD, 4 x 4tb reds, P222 raid card. I'm looking to use it for a house NAS, and also to run some stuff so our devices can use it as a cloud based store, can run music from it, centralised photo library etc, and also a TV server to pass HD Homerun into Kodi machines arount the house. Is it wise to run ESXI6.0 and the Virtualise FreeNAS? If so I could also have a second VPC to handle torrenting, Mediacentermaster, Kodi library etc. take these jobs off my older HTPC which will be replaced with a smaller client eventually? What would you do if it was yours? Thanks for any time and input, bit of a newb here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metallus Posted November 4, 2015 Share Posted November 4, 2015 The way I did it was a VM machine with openmediavault (OMV). It has a OwnCloud plugin to handle the away from home part of the NAS. It has a miniDLNA plugin for media and a Transmission Plugin. The bare-metal HOST OS doesn't really matter. My choice was Windows 2012 Hyper-V Core Server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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