Hello everyone.
I haven't been much of an enthusiast lately - in that last time I bought my equipment I went pretty high end so I could milk it for years. I think my machine is now about 5 years old... And was thinking of building a machine that would (hopefully) replace my desktop. That is the secondary goal though.
Primary goal is a machine that I can experiment with ESXi or whichever hypervisor is best for my application. I can probably throw up to $2k at it without much pain - in that I again will keep it for the long run.
I'd like to run OS X in a VM as well as well of course Windows and any other OS's I care to experiment with. I'll also run my Unraid media server from that machine.
I do not game on my pc at all these days but I'm wondering how likely it is to be able to support highly intensive graphics work (including gaming) in a VM? (Again my goal is to hopefully replace my desktop in my bedroom with a zero client box)
My budget would allow me to get a high end processor and plenty of RAM. (32-64GB probably)
Any pointers on where to start in terms of processor, ram type, video card, and which hypervisor?
Oh and of course motherboard. I was thinking of the Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F-O - it's overkill in that it has onboard VGA I believe. But it has tons of SATA (although I have a SM SATA board that works great with Unraid)... It has four gig E ports, which would allow me to run pfsense if I wanted, etc..
Appreciate any wisdom you all have in getting me started with researching the right things. Thank you
I haven't been much of an enthusiast lately - in that last time I bought my equipment I went pretty high end so I could milk it for years. I think my machine is now about 5 years old... And was thinking of building a machine that would (hopefully) replace my desktop. That is the secondary goal though.
Primary goal is a machine that I can experiment with ESXi or whichever hypervisor is best for my application. I can probably throw up to $2k at it without much pain - in that I again will keep it for the long run.
I'd like to run OS X in a VM as well as well of course Windows and any other OS's I care to experiment with. I'll also run my Unraid media server from that machine.
I do not game on my pc at all these days but I'm wondering how likely it is to be able to support highly intensive graphics work (including gaming) in a VM? (Again my goal is to hopefully replace my desktop in my bedroom with a zero client box)
My budget would allow me to get a high end processor and plenty of RAM. (32-64GB probably)
Any pointers on where to start in terms of processor, ram type, video card, and which hypervisor?
Oh and of course motherboard. I was thinking of the Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F-O - it's overkill in that it has onboard VGA I believe. But it has tons of SATA (although I have a SM SATA board that works great with Unraid)... It has four gig E ports, which would allow me to run pfsense if I wanted, etc..
Appreciate any wisdom you all have in getting me started with researching the right things. Thank you