# Virtual Machine requirements/recommendations for PMS

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**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [December 11, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/virtual-machine-requirements-recommendations-for-pms/345469 "2018-12-11T00:35:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![prologic\_shortcircuit.net.au](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/prologic_shortcircuit.net.au/32/108704_2.png) [@prologic\_shortcircuit.net.au](https://forums.plex.tv/u/prologic_shortcircuit.net.au)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/virtual-machine-requirements-recommendations-for-pms/345469/1 "2018-12-11T00:35:19Z")

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Hello,

I currently deploy Plex Media Server (PMS) as a Docker container on a Virtual Machine with Proxmox VE as the Hypervisor (KVM). The Node has 2 virtual cores and 2GB of memory.

I notice performance issues – especially with Live TV and Recordings from my HDHomeRun Quatro.

I do notice significant high CPU utilization on the running container with my Prometheus+Grafana monitoring.

My question is:

What is the minimum and recommended requirements for running Plex Media Serve r (PMS) in a virtual environment to get acceptable to decent performance.

Thanks!

cheers  
James

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**Author:** ![pl\_5309](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2bfe46/32.png) [@pl\_5309](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pl_5309)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/virtual-machine-requirements-recommendations-for-pms/345469/2 "2018-12-11T13:09:23Z")

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The defining factor will be, do you have clients that can play MPEG2 streams, if not then the CPU and/or GPU will have to transcode for you. If you have a recent core Ix-xxxx cpu, it might perform better with a [LXC install.](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-installation-guide-when-using-a-proxmox-5-1-lxc-container/219728) Plex likes high single core performance for live tv, find out your passmark, for a 20Mbps 1080 stream you would need close to 3000. DVR shouldn’t use that much, make sure you are using VIRTIO for network and disk.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/virtual-machine-requirements-recommendations-for-pms/345469/3 "2019-03-11T13:15:00Z")

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