Server Version#: Ubuntu 18.04
Player Version#: Not sure recent
I have a Linux Plex server that feels underpowered and I can’t find any spec recommendations for a Linux plex server. My setup is dell t620 running VMWare 6.7 – 12 CPUs x Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz 96GB of RAM. The VM for Linux is 4 virtual CPUs 2 processors 2 cores and 8GB of RAM.
What makes me feel it’s underpowered is it sometimes the server can’t complete the request see the video I made below. When I go to play a song it works sometimes it fails others. If I click the pencil from the web app it fails. other times you click the pencil it works. I only use plex for my music collection no movies I additionally have tested with the app and 4 or 5 different pc’s or browsers. I have multiple plex installs and this only happens on the linux install. I’ve gone through vmware and can not identify any cause there. Thanks for you help.
I am running Plex on VMWare 6.7 Xeon E5-2630 v2 at 2.60GHz, 6 CPUs. The specs for the VM guest hosting my Plex server is CentOS 7, minimum install. No GUI on the CentOS 7 install. The resource allocated to my Plex server VM is 6 GB of RAM and a total of 4 cores.
The quality is very good and I always use subtitles when watching local videos which adds an extra burden on the server.
I observed that your VM is Linux. That is good. Previously I tried running Plex on a Windows VM and found that I needed lots of horsepower. My Plex install on the Linux VM did not need so much horsepower as Windows to get a good experience.
Now, here is my disclaimer: I have a killer LAN with Cisco switches and my video streaming is on its own VLAN. Perhaps a bit over engineered. And my streaming is seldom over WIFI, usually wired devices. But even WIFI streaming videos are excellent.
Music streaming is much less burdensome and much less demanding than video streaming. I believe the VMWare hardware specs you described are sufficient for music streaming. I believe you have something else going on.
Thanks for the reply but the VMWare servers has a few other workloads on the server so its not a waste from that perspective. I dont want to invest in anymore money in hardware for plex. I have a old mac desktop that used to be my server im going to switch back to it i guess.
