Hello PROXMOX forum,
First post and PROXMOX "newb" so please be gentle with me !!
First a question then a little history.
Question:
Does anyone have any experience/advice on a reasonable priced quad core (if possible) Intel Pentium/2nd gen i3 LGA1155 chip I can use on my new Supermicro X9SCL-f motherboard for running PROXMOX ?
History:
This is a home office based system used for testing/education and some development work and I rarely run more than 4 VM's at any one time so CPU speed (I'm thinking expensive Xeon's here) is not needed. Also, the VM's are not usually left running for more than a couple of days at a time.
There will be no local storage on this server as VM's are currently held on FreeNAS (NFS or ISCSI, I have both setup) as I am actually replacing an ageing AMD based system (runs ESXi5) that I have been using for well over 4 years now. This system uses an AMD Phenom quad core CPU. The new server will boot from USB (is this OK ?)
I say I am a PROXMOX "newb" but I have a small amount of experience with PROXMOX as I have tested it in a VM connecting to NFS storage on my FreeNAS system and created a couple of VM's, but I am would not say I am "experienced" with PROXMOX at all.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated and if I need to provide any more info please let me know.
Thx
First post and PROXMOX "newb" so please be gentle with me !!
First a question then a little history.
Question:
Does anyone have any experience/advice on a reasonable priced quad core (if possible) Intel Pentium/2nd gen i3 LGA1155 chip I can use on my new Supermicro X9SCL-f motherboard for running PROXMOX ?
History:
This is a home office based system used for testing/education and some development work and I rarely run more than 4 VM's at any one time so CPU speed (I'm thinking expensive Xeon's here) is not needed. Also, the VM's are not usually left running for more than a couple of days at a time.
There will be no local storage on this server as VM's are currently held on FreeNAS (NFS or ISCSI, I have both setup) as I am actually replacing an ageing AMD based system (runs ESXi5) that I have been using for well over 4 years now. This system uses an AMD Phenom quad core CPU. The new server will boot from USB (is this OK ?)
I say I am a PROXMOX "newb" but I have a small amount of experience with PROXMOX as I have tested it in a VM connecting to NFS storage on my FreeNAS system and created a couple of VM's, but I am would not say I am "experienced" with PROXMOX at all.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated and if I need to provide any more info please let me know.
Thx