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I'm still debaiting this decision. Luckily the new wave Xeon D boards aren't in stock yet which has given me some time. It's between 2-node ROBO vSAN with witness appliance or a single storage appliance to be shared amongst 2 ESXi hosts. I got an amazing deal on 6 x 400GB Hitachi USSL...

Thanks for the information. I did Google this before posting but I got inconclusive information. The truth is I rarely game and if I do it's games from the late 90's early 2000's anyway (StarCraft for example). What are these specific issues you're talking about with regard to the v4/v5 Xeons...

First off, is it possible to passthrough a GPU and USB controller to create a gaming VM on ESXi? I've seen it done on other platforms (Xen, KVM, etc.) but I'm not sure it's supported on ESXi. If it is, what hardware specific options should I be looking for? I'm looking to build a...

If I decide to go the shared storage route (I'm leaning that way currently), are there any specific requirements (specifically CPU) for vMotion to work seamlessly between hosts? Would a host running a Xeon D would fine with one running a Xeon E3 v5?

I'm specing out a home vSphere cluster for dual purposes. I want to learn more about VMware clustering yes but I also want to apply it as best I can to my home network needs as I find that's the best way to learn things. My goal is to have redundancy for all my "production" VMs/Dockers (Linux...