Currently I have a home server running dual Xeon E5-2670 8 core processors 128GB of DDR3-1600 ECC memory that I run ESXi 6.0 on. It is in a Rosewill 4u server chassis with 12 3.5" drive bays full of HDDs.
I currently run a handful of full time VM hosts:
- FreeNAS Server
- Plex Server
- Windows 10 Blue Iris "server" for 5 home security cameras
- MS Active Directory domain controller
- Dedicated Linux Torrent/Sonaar/Radarr VM
I work in IT (desktop side) and am constantly spinning up new VMs to use as test labs to learn and experiment with Citrix, Linux, and all sorts of other things.
My current system has enough CPU cores and memory available to do pretty much anything I've wanted to do; but isn't the most power efficient solution out there. I have been considering replacing it with a new AMD Threadripper or Epyc homeserver build. I have gotten my hands on 6 sticks of DDR4-2666 ECC ram and am trying to figure out a good budget option for CPU and MB.
I am considering grabbing a Epyc 7551p from ebay and a budget sp3 motherboard; but wanted to post on here if anyone had any ideas that might be better in the same price range ($500 to $600 total for MB and memory). Also wondering if anyone has had any experiences (good or bad) with EPYC and ESXI. I'm a desktop guy and haven't really done much work in server space and I've read some stuff about memory configs and NUMA settings (which I really don't understand) but and trying to learn more.
If anyone has any advice or guidance, it would be greatly appreciated.
I currently run a handful of full time VM hosts:
- FreeNAS Server
- Plex Server
- Windows 10 Blue Iris "server" for 5 home security cameras
- MS Active Directory domain controller
- Dedicated Linux Torrent/Sonaar/Radarr VM
I work in IT (desktop side) and am constantly spinning up new VMs to use as test labs to learn and experiment with Citrix, Linux, and all sorts of other things.
My current system has enough CPU cores and memory available to do pretty much anything I've wanted to do; but isn't the most power efficient solution out there. I have been considering replacing it with a new AMD Threadripper or Epyc homeserver build. I have gotten my hands on 6 sticks of DDR4-2666 ECC ram and am trying to figure out a good budget option for CPU and MB.
I am considering grabbing a Epyc 7551p from ebay and a budget sp3 motherboard; but wanted to post on here if anyone had any ideas that might be better in the same price range ($500 to $600 total for MB and memory). Also wondering if anyone has had any experiences (good or bad) with EPYC and ESXI. I'm a desktop guy and haven't really done much work in server space and I've read some stuff about memory configs and NUMA settings (which I really don't understand) but and trying to learn more.
If anyone has any advice or guidance, it would be greatly appreciated.