Intel Xeon E-2288G vs. Xeon Silver 4215

[DaGerba]

Hi Everybody,

I am setting up a new Proxmox VE 6.2 machine for our 5-6 person office. It will host basically 3-4 guests: a Linux fileserver, a Win10 machine with a SQL-Server, a Win 10 Desktop for a homeoffice user and sometimes one or two Linux systems for testing.

The goal is to find a economical solution that still does this job smoothly. Therefore I aim to set up a system based on a Intel Xeon E-2288G, which would in the end be about 30-40 % cheaper than a comparable system based on Xeon Silver 4215.

I can not see, why server hardware providers always recommend the Xeon Scalable (Bronze, Silver or Gold) for virtualisation, instead of the Xeon E with 6 or 8 cores. When I directly compare them ( like here ) the Xeon E looks equal, or even better to me. Do I fail to see something? Is the Xeon E a bad desicion for my needs?

Thank you, for your opinions.

Greetings from Bavaria
Michael

 

[tweak]

Hi,


im not sure but I dont think a windows 10 machine would my prefer for sql server.
Maybe you can go with windows server and use one lizenz for this sql server and the other for your home-office users?
But that hat nothing to do with virtualization.

In my home lab I use a similar system, it's a HP DL20 Gen10 with E2136.
And i am pretty happy with it! Didn't find the bottleneck until now.

One important Difference between Xeon Silver... and Xeon E-Series is the amount of Ram. If you are using a Citrix-Host or Something like that you would not get happy with 128GB Ram.

CU

 

[DaGerba]

Good Morning,

thank you for your reply. Ram is not an issue. Until now the system is running flawless under PVE 4.4 with 32 GB RAM on a Xeon E3-1225 QuadCore. The new system is going to get 64 GB because of ZFS.

Have a nice day everybody!