So I really have no virtualization experience. I plan to recreate my work environment with will be 4 guests at 2vcpu apiece however i dont know if those will run 24/7 and even if so, they will do next to nothing sitting idle. Other than that I plan to spin up VMs mainly for services and just messing around with different OS. I have a dedicated NAS, Firewall, switches etc...all appliances are sperate. Even my plex server is on a dedicated NUC/mini PC with no other functions.
I've pretty much settled on a supermicro X11SPi-TF, this is a single socket board. As a first timer would you prioritize core count, speed, TDP or a healthy balance? Socket 3647 has so many xeon options. I actually have (and am selling) two Cisco UCS240 M4 servers that were given to me. After looking at the cost it would take to run both of them at least one 24/7 I've decided to build my own proxmox box so efficiency is important, but anything should be better than that dual CPU dual PSU and 16 spinners of this enterprise equipment. I should re-coop everything I spend on the server build after selling the cisco gear. I have the case, picked out the board just need cpu and psu and whatever pcie i want to use.
So I know it comes down to the personal workload here. But if you were just starting out what would you prioritize? I will have 128gb of memory to begin, 8x16GB dimms. I just cant decide whether to grab a 16/18 core with a base speed of like 2.1 and 150w TDP or something like 12 core @ 2.7 with a 105w TDP. Being single socket I want to try and get it right as I can, if I have to upgrade it in 2 years no worries, I just dont want to find I'm out of resources in 3-6 months.
Maybe i can learn from your early assumptions and mistakes. Thank you
EDIT- I also have a 10700k board and chip from my old gaming build. I have thought about just using this 8c/16T and buy memory.
I've pretty much settled on a supermicro X11SPi-TF, this is a single socket board. As a first timer would you prioritize core count, speed, TDP or a healthy balance? Socket 3647 has so many xeon options. I actually have (and am selling) two Cisco UCS240 M4 servers that were given to me. After looking at the cost it would take to run both of them at least one 24/7 I've decided to build my own proxmox box so efficiency is important, but anything should be better than that dual CPU dual PSU and 16 spinners of this enterprise equipment. I should re-coop everything I spend on the server build after selling the cisco gear. I have the case, picked out the board just need cpu and psu and whatever pcie i want to use.
So I know it comes down to the personal workload here. But if you were just starting out what would you prioritize? I will have 128gb of memory to begin, 8x16GB dimms. I just cant decide whether to grab a 16/18 core with a base speed of like 2.1 and 150w TDP or something like 12 core @ 2.7 with a 105w TDP. Being single socket I want to try and get it right as I can, if I have to upgrade it in 2 years no worries, I just dont want to find I'm out of resources in 3-6 months.
Maybe i can learn from your early assumptions and mistakes. Thank you
EDIT- I also have a 10700k board and chip from my old gaming build. I have thought about just using this 8c/16T and buy memory.
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