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Mining under ESXi

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Phixzet

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So I'm about to build my general purpose workstation, and I was thinking of installing ESXi on it. (standalone, passthrough monitor, keyboard, mouse to one VM)

One of the things it would be used for is for Blue Iris (on a second VM), so frequent (or even infrequent) reboots would kind of suck. So I could have one VM running for that and anything else critical to me, while my main VM for mining and all other every day activities would be separate (with the gpu, keyboard, etc passthrough).

I'm pretty sure GPU passthrough is workable (not 100% yet)... I've done some preliminary reading on the GPU performance hit you get, and it seems pretty low.

On the other hand - even though Windows patches and other reboots (BSOD or not) are more frequent than any of us appreciate, in the end my new system should be incredibly fast at rebooting so perhaps it's not worth the overhead of a bare-metal hypervisor and a separate VM...

Advice or thoughts?
 
The advantage to ESX is that only the updating OS restarts and everything else can keep chugging along. The advantage of running a host OS with 1 VM on top of it is that you have to muck with it less to get passthrough and such working. I honestly have not kept up on the passthrough capabilities so am of no help on how well or difficult that portion will be. Someone else may have the knowledge. Since it is only a NVR that is running in one of the VM's, I would make that the VM and just run it on top of a core OS. Then again, I do not know how many cameras and the quality that you will be saving them as. I use a dedicated old dual core laptop with Blue Iris right now. But, I haven't installed my cameras yet due to a recent move and weather. I have 3 cell phones (Blackberry Classics) currently running as ONVIF IP cams inside the home and it handles all 3 of those with ease. If that is all I was using, I would easily trust a VM on top of a windows host. However, the true test will come as I expand out.
 
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