To Hyper-V/Remote FX or not...that is the question

[AgileHumor 123]

Just finished building my Intel i9 Core system with 480GB of Optane SSD.  I have a Nvidia Qaudro P2000 (as I could not fit a full length P4000 card in my Norco RPC-430 case) which supports unlimited streams of NvEnc.   I'm re-using the 8 x 6TB drives my current Emby server for media storage (Raid 5) inside the case using a 58GB Optane M.2 card for disk cache acceleration. .

 

So, my unresolved question is should I run Emby on the box natively as I planned, or use Hyper-V with Remote FX?

 

Pros of Hyper-V

• Backup very easy
• Reliability/Portability, can move to another Hyper-V server if primary server goes down
• Snapshotting easy for testing newer builds
• Upgrading to newer hardware simpler in future.
• I can use the LTSB version of Windows 10 (enterprise, low updates except for security). 

Cons of Hyper-V

• Limited to 1GB of Memory use of GPU (of 5GB available on P2000)
• Unsure if NvEnc is supported over RemoteFX. 
• There may be some CPU instructions that are more efficient natively, especially media encoding. 
• There may be some benefit to the disk and application being on the same OS for kernel scheduling optimizations (as well as potential unknown Optane caching optimizations)

 

The core server (Hyper-V or Windows 10 native) will also run Kodi for running our main living room TV...but the TV (and most of my content) is 1080p or less.

 

What does the Emby community think?

Edited April 12, 2018 by AgileHumor

[Jdiesel 1114]

I personally like to keep my setup as simple as possible and keep the number of failure points to a minimum. When I setup my server I had considered doing a ESXi setup but in the end went with a basic Linux server for simplicity.  

Edited April 12, 2018 by Jdiesel

[mbnwa 49]

I would run native to reduce the risk of oddities.

 

 

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[mastrmind11 717]

yep, keep it simple.