What server specs are needed for a good experience?

[FlyingTexan]

I have an unraid server at home that runs 24.7.  Would be nice if there was a dcs world docker but no luck.  I can launch a windows VM and run it from there. The CPU on the server is an intel 11600k with 64GB memory.  My worry is that the 11600k does not have enough cores for both unraid and windows/dcs.  How many cores would I need to allocate to Windows/DCS, 2? I'm trying to decide what I would want to do system wise. I've floated the idea of swapping out the cpu and motherboard to a 13th gen or upgrading my desktop and putting the 5800x3d in my desktop in there. How much crunching does the server really do? I'm on a 1gb fiber line and use a firewalla router so I could dedicate bandwidth to keep it fluid.

 

Also how stable is the server? I'm not home half the months. 

[HC_Official]

DCS server is pretty low on CPU use and uses on average 8G of RAM per server instance

Stable is not a word I would use in the same sentence as DCS , myself I restart my server at least once per day

[Maverick87Shaka]

13 hours ago, FlyingTexan said:

How many cores would I need to allocate to Windows/DCS, 2?

2 core is not even enough to run decently windows itself, I will not recommend to run a VM with 2 core a DCS server. Go for at least 4 cores.

13 hours ago, FlyingTexan said:

Also how stable is the server? I'm not home half the months. 

not enough to run 15 days without any reboot, but you can schedule most of the work