Is it possible to have more than 1 Physical server but have them linked so that you can log on and see all the files on ALL the servers with 1 logon and 1 server name?
Also I am at about 200k of files and it does not seem to want to show anymore is there a limit on the amount of files plex will index?
No. Plex does not support conjoined servers.
There is no physical limit but a practical limit observed , based on a significantly powerful i7 / Xeon system, with SSD for the database, seems to be functional up to about 300,000 indexed items
I have a test system with 340,000 TV episodes (Fake QA names).
PMS does well with that but there are times when the Plex/Web does get a little sluggish loading from the i7-7700
You can set up several servers and sign them all into the same plex.tv account.
The media libraries on those servers can appear as separate items on your left sidebar.
But if you have e.g. one half of your movies on one server and the other half on a second server, you won’t be able to view them as one continuous list.
Any chance that this could be added to a future feature for paid users? A feature to Conjoin more than 1 server? So for example If i have 3 Servers a feature that says possibly “Show as one library” or something like that? I have been collecting CDs since they came out and have a very large collection that I want to put onto my servers is this something we can work on together?
It doesnt really make any logical sense to support multiple “servers” under one database/name. Plex isnt designed to support that type of cross server communication. The support that does exist is by having each server with its own name/section. Plex then queries each server independently. Trying to do a smart play list cross server would just start getting ugly.
I would recommend looking at your file structure and plan ahead. I have my media spread out across 3 physical servers and 2 plex instances.
Any particular reason you dont want to combine like media on the same server?
Ive got about 260,000 files indexed between audio, TV, and video and the server works fine
I hear you in requesting that. I have 6 servers here (testing + personal).
What I’ve done is have all the media in one central place. All my servers draw from that same source.
The clients allow us to “pin” multiple sources in order to present a single left-panel list.
When you have 3 servers, you are getting getting close to the question “Why do you need to distribute your user load?” . It begs the question – “Is this a commercial usage?” to which would be violation of the ToS.
Before speaking to the point of joining 3 machines, may I ask what you’re using for those 3 machines? What are the resources available? CPU, Memory, Storage ?
I have 3 NUC8i7HVK boxes doing all the main work here (Plex + personal + desktop workstation) and my NAS boxes for development. All perform the same network mount of /nas/media and have the same media available to draw from.
Depending on the task I’m performing (personal or Plex), i’ll configure library sections accordingly.
I can still open any of my players (Roku, Shield, etc) and see all servers in that left panel
1st This is for personal use only. Not for anyone else to listen to but me. NOT in any way commercial.
2nd I do not need to distribute my user load since it is only me listening to the music so that’s not the issue. The issue is SPACE 1 server has 6 drives another has 12 and the other 6… I am simply using them as STORAGE space not distribution of users load.
So when you say PIN a source. Can I have the ONE server running PLEX and the other 2 connected to that 1 server as “Sources” and how would i do that? I want to make sure I do it right. I really don’t think I need the other servers as PROCESSING power just storage.
What I want is to be able to see ALL my music in 1 library no matter what server it is on. So for example AIRSUPPLY could be on Server 1 and ZZtop could be on server 2, But when i look in my library I see Airsupply and Zztop in 1 library. I am also doing this to prevent Duplicates in my library as some of my CDs i do have a couple copies of and do not want to add them to my database more than once as this would be a waste of space.
This is what it looks like for me.
One player panel, Multiple servers feeding into it. (yes, i need to reorganize)
As seen on this player (plex/web) I have all these available sources listed so I can pick from any of them at a moment’s notice.
So each server has to have its own listing on the left side and can not be combined into 1 library ?
That’s correct. Each server is stand alone.
Now, you do have another option.
If you have any one server which is strong enough to serve up all your files,
you can network share the files
example:
/nas/
server1/
cd-group1/
cd's here
server2/
movies/
Movie Name (year)/
Movie .ext
Linux will net you network mount as many as you want.
In my case, I put all my storage on a purpose-built 120TB box.
There is nothing preventing you from aggregating your smaller storage boxes to present a unified storage to a singe Plex server.
I think the Dell 720 I have might be strong enough to do this. I don’t have a TON of money so I am putting this together as I go.
Can I bother you for a step by step on how to implement this code that you provided? Such as How to set up the FILE SERVERS to connect to the PLEX server? Would that be FTP etc. I think this would be a good tutorial for others as well.
How Can i DM you?
I would look up windows folder sharing. I map the drives from alternate computers IE \\media-pc\videos to E:\ on the Plex computer (if you have windows) and then just point Plex to E:\ I would make sure you disable the automatically empty trash option, as occasionally windows has hiccups with network drives.
I have mine hosted on a Linux Ubuntu Server. I did use windows at one point but windows eats up so much memory just the OS that it was very laggy so I switched over to Linux.
Then look up Linux directory sharing, and mounting shares. same concept, slightly different process.
FAQ 5 & 6 cover network mounts for media.
Be advised, storing PMS metadata over the LAN is not supported because network file locking is not guaranteed (the database must have file locking).
Not sure what I am doing wrong here… Trying to get it on the box but keeps telling me not found…
Copy the link from the download page, should end up with:
https://downloads.plex.tv/plex-media-server-new/1.25.7.5604-980a13e02/debian/plexmediaserver_1.25.7.5604-980a13e02_amd64.deb
