T110 II & ESXi: again :)

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I'm thinking to buy this cheap server to replace my actual i3-based ESXi machine wich hasn't VT-d.

Now, I have just 4 precise answers:

1. Will T110-II support VT-d out of the box with 5.1??

2. Has anyone mesured power draw al wall both in idle and under load? I'm interested particularly to e3-1220v2 version.

3. One of guests will be a HTPC: will ESXi support video card passthru on this machine, and media acceleration?

4. And, speaking of video card passthru, I do some cuda development. Will I have full access to graphics card through guests?

Thanks!
 
1) can't answer for certain, I don't use passthrough, but it does give me the option to pass through the sata controllers, nics and graphics on 5.0

2) I did, but I can't recall what it was (with a 1230, not v2), but it was not high. Idle was something in the low 100 watt range with multiple drives & a raid controller. a v2 should be lower still.

3) again no passthrough configured on mine, but it does give me the option to passthrough the built-in matrox video.
 
4) You will not be able to use the video card on all guests, unless you have a dev card. Then you can use the graphic card in the different guests. I am not sure on pass through, but I believe it will, but only for the one guest its tied to.
A graphic card like this would work for the guests. Link
And there is a hack that can make Consumer cards act like professional ones. I even think there is a thread in here about someone making an ESXi Gaming host. Check that out for graphic card questions.
 
bleeblak8 said:
4) You will not be able to use the video card on all guests, unless you have a dev card. Then you can use the graphic card in the different guests. I am not sure on pass through, but I believe it will, but only for the one guest its tied to.
A graphic card like this would work for the guests. Link
And there is a hack that can make Consumer cards act like professional ones. I even think there is a thread in here about someone making an ESXi Gaming host. Check that out for graphic card questions.
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Very valuable advice and link. Thanks. I'm starting to think that for video card passthru, Xen should be better... What do you think? :confused:
 
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