The Great Cutover

Hey everyone,

Not much was said about this because I didn’t necessarily expect it to work the way it did but here we are.

Whats happened is that I’ve invested in a 1U Dell PowerEdge R610 with dual quad core Xeon processors, 48 gigs of DDR3 RAM and 600 gigs of RAID 6 redundant SAS (10k RPM) storage.

What I’ve done is give this new server running ESXi 6 access to the NAS where all the content for Plex is stored, gathered and usually served from and setup a Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit VM to act as the new transcoding server thus taking the weight off the NAS.

Now, it’s not that the NAS was not capable of keeping up but rather this monster server could do it’s job twice as well. With a total of 8 cores the CPU intensive process of transcoding media for users would be much better handled and leave the NAS to do what it does best. Store data.

While many of the services I.E the PlexRequests server run on the NAS, the newly reopened minecraft server and the transcoding (Plex Media Server itself) aspect of things now has its own dedicated hardware.

Please let me know if you’ve seen a dip in performance since the switch so I can address it. Currently the server is still re-initializing its database of content which may slow it down a bit but thats about all thats holding it back.

All users that were in good standing (meaning if you had access yesterday you’ll still have it) have been given access to the new server. Sadly your watched progress had to be sacrificed for the greater good but I’m sure most of you know where you were at episode wise anyways.

Send all complaints to Commander blackglitch!

Regards,

The LightSpeed Team