New Windows Multi-Function Home Server

Setting Up The New PC

I've finished upgrading our home PC/server  ...

• ASUS H97 Plus MOBO
• Intel® i7 3.6GHz CPU
• 24GB RAM
• Dual  ASUS® VS248 monitors
• 1 via HDMI
• 1 via VGA
• Windows® 7 Pro N x64 (for compatibility reasons)
• VirtualBox v5.0.4
• VM1 - Win8.1 x64
• VM2 - Win10 x64
• VM3 - WinXP x32 
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 8 USB
• 1 Firewire  (for legacy VideoCam)
• USB Logitech Mouse/Keyboard
• USB Logitech Web Cam
• USB Microphone
• Wired Logitech 3.1 sound
• Wired Headset
• 5 Disk sets comprising approx 11.7 TeraBytes of storage

The key disk features are:

• an 200GB Win7 System partition;
• an 6TB RAID5 array 
• 1x 2TB data disk
• 2x 1TB data disks
• 1x 1TB data disk
• 1x 500GB data disk
• a couple of 2TB disks for backup

It acts as;

• our family File Server; 
• the home DVR video security manager - Blue Iris®;
• managing in excess of 6 HD motion detection cameras
• home theatre media server - Serviio®;
• serving up to 3 devices concurrently
• My workstation - VirtualBox® with  two VM's running:
• Win 8.1 Pro and 8GB RAM
• Win 10 and 6GB RAM
• backup manager of itself and three other family systems
• 1x Windows 7
• 1x Windows 10
• 1x MAC Air
• I employ two types of backup
• File replication - 2ndCopy®;
• File backup -  EaseUS® Todo Backup Workstation

 Security consists of a mix of:

• NAT firewall router
• BitDefender Internet Security
• further NAT translation into VirtualBox
• Norton Internet Security
• CryptoPrevent
• File encryption

Moving from my old WinXP x32 to the new x64 environments I was successfully able to:

• moved my ATO ECI software to the new Win8.1
• reinstalled and reactivated my Quick Books 2007 software underWin8.1
• moved/upgraded my Blue Iris (now v3) software to the new Win7
• moved/upgraded my EaseUS Todo Backup Workstation software under Win7
• reinstalled the 2nd Copy file sync manager under all three OS's (7/8.1/10)
• moved RouterStats® Lite underWin7
• set up TeamViewer® under all three OS's (7/8.1/10)
• set up Synergy®   under all three OS's (7/8.1/10)
• set up VLC®  under all three OS's (7/8.1/10)
• set up Skype®  under all three OS's (7/8.1/10)
• reinstalled Paint Shop Pro 8 under Win8.1
• moved PasswordKeeper under all three OS's (7/8.1/10)
• set up Shotty screen capture under all three OS's (7/8.1/10)
• reinstalled DesktopOK layout manager under Win7 and Win8.1
• reinstalled WinZip under all three OS's (7/8.1/10) 
• moved Watts Clever USB energy monitor to Win7
• moved my Kiwi Syslog server to Win7
• reinstalled MUM - Internode's Monthly Usage Meter under 7 and 8.1 and partially successfully under Win10 (won't return LAN card throughput since recent Win10 update)
• moved the Aurora Communicator software for our solar generator to run under Win7
• installed IP Camera Viewer under all three OS's (7/8.1/10)
• reinstalled FileZilla FTP server under Win7

One failure was the redeployment of the Temper USB temperature probe software which had to be substituted with ThermoHID

An additional success was a successful reinstall of the long-time failed USB-UIRT remote control sender/receiver product under Win7