Hi Guys,
Here's my scenario. I setup Plex a while ago for myself to use within my home and I love it. Obviously I wanted it for when I was out of the house aswell so I configured it to be accessible whereever I was. Which as we all know works great. Now, 2 years on All of my family and a rather large count of my friends are accessing my Plex server on a fairly regular basis. Obviously I've no problem with this but I am hitting a limitation and that's the resources assigned to my server.
I have two HP Gen 8 Microservers wiht Xeon 1265L proc's and 16 gigs of ram each. My plex VM (running on Ubuntu 14.04) has 4 cores and 4 gigs of ram assigned to it. I can shuffle around the other VM's a bit and assign more RAM or Cores to the Plex VM but what I would like to do is to install a second Plex server on the other host and point it at the same Media store (running on Freenas 9.3 over NFS). Then I would move some of my users to the other VM, hence splitting the load.
My question is this, Am I going to run into any issues here? I understand that theres a slim chance that two users on the different hosts will attempt to play the exact same file but I don't think this will be an issue. I'm more thinking about the two plex servers fighting with each other over the metadata associated with a particular media file. Is the Metadata stored in the media share or does Plex store it locally with the VM and link it using references?
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
TQ