So i thought id give PMS in VM a try to see if it works well.
But what is a good starting point, settings-wise? And i mean stuff like CPU and Cores.
It’s gonna run in Windows Server 2012 R2.
I bet the 1 CPU/1 Core default is underpowered for PMS when handling about 1-2 1080p transcodes. And/Or 1-2 1080p directstream/directplay (or one 1080p and one 4K). And sometimes 1 4K HW-transcode (i know its less CPU intensive)
I have a Intel Xeon E3-1245V6
Clockspeed: 3.7 GHz
No of Cores: 4 (2 logical cores per physical)
I use 2 cores and 2 3GB RAM for my Win10 based PMS. Minimal transcoding as I prep my media ahead of time for my devices to avoid transcoding. h264/AAC stereo with AC3/DTS/SRT subs when needed.
Like @drinehart I’m running a Win 10 PMS with 2 cores but with 4GB RAM and hosted on a 60GB SSD. Media is stored on a separate NAS. There is very little Transcoding happening with my media but when there is I never notice a issue.
Do you mean you have 1 vCPU and 2 cores assigned?
Still not sure if im gonna use microsoft hyper-v or esxi vSphere Hypervisor (free).
Any input on which should be better for PMS?
2 cores = 2vCPUs. When you virtualize, there is not a difference (performance) between 2 slots and 1 core each or 1 slot and 2 cores each. I am using ESXi. It really comes down to licensing issues where you are limited on CPU count (Windows clients, etc.) and instances where an OS cannot use a high core count for a CPU (legacy stuff).
If your hardware supports PCI passthrough you should be ok. You will lose your console for ESXi, though, if you don’t have another card in your server. BTW, I corrected my initial post, I have 3GB ram assigned, not 2GB ram.
