I think 6-core Xeon-d is locked in as my 24x7 General server. Don't know it it will be ESX,KVM,Hyper-V yet but it will host most of my wanted always on VM's and will be probably all SSD storage.
I want a couple of other systems for real 'play' or do I just want another bigger system and use nested virtulisation ?
I was thinking and extra 1 or 2 Xeon-d systems, question is if my workload is light is 2 cores enough or should I go for 4 or at a stretch 6 cores and why ?
Extra info:
- I have access at work to huge systems if I want to do any heavy duty play
- I have ample ddr4 rdimm memory available (by ample I mean 64 or 128gb per system)
- I won't be running 10g network for now or maybe just 1 or 2 ports but I also don't think I have a use for it.
- I have 4 weeks before I next head to USA when I will be shopping.
- small, quiet, and low power a priority (e5-2670 for me belong in the DC, think Xeon-d or NUC which I already have 1 of and Mac mini but I was thinking to divest those)
I want a couple of other systems for real 'play' or do I just want another bigger system and use nested virtulisation ?
I was thinking and extra 1 or 2 Xeon-d systems, question is if my workload is light is 2 cores enough or should I go for 4 or at a stretch 6 cores and why ?
Extra info:
- I have access at work to huge systems if I want to do any heavy duty play
- I have ample ddr4 rdimm memory available (by ample I mean 64 or 128gb per system)
- I won't be running 10g network for now or maybe just 1 or 2 ports but I also don't think I have a use for it.
- I have 4 weeks before I next head to USA when I will be shopping.
- small, quiet, and low power a priority (e5-2670 for me belong in the DC, think Xeon-d or NUC which I already have 1 of and Mac mini but I was thinking to divest those)