So I'm looking with great interest at the Beelink 12/pro/etc series STH has been reviewing, and while I find the P+E cores *really* close to where I want to be, for a virtualization env, i still want to keep storage and VM's on separate interfaces. With proper redundancy, that requires (4) interfaces (2x2LAG groups). I love the GPU VT-D abilities of the 12th gen intel CPU's as well.
I'm not finding anything out there that combines those, so I figured I'd put it out to this intelligent group of geeks:
MUST HAVE:
* intel 12th gen CPU + GPU
* VT-D/virtual-GPU
* at least 8 cores - (all efficiency is fine, but would take split of P/vs/E)
* (4) physical copper network interfaces. 4x1G is fine, some amount of 2.5G would be better
* at least (1) NVM-E slot
* small form factor / external power brick
NICE TO HAVE:
* more than 1 NVM-E slot
* NVM-E N-Key slot that supports the dual TPU coral adapter (x2 channels I think?)
* Less than $500 per box
* SFP+ based interfaces?
DONT CARE ABOUT:
* number of HDMI outputs
* number of Displayport outputs
* number of SATA ports (will be using network-based primary storage)
* number of USB ports
* speed of USB ports (not planning on USB-based NIC)
Thanks in advance!
I'm not finding anything out there that combines those, so I figured I'd put it out to this intelligent group of geeks:
MUST HAVE:
* intel 12th gen CPU + GPU
* VT-D/virtual-GPU
* at least 8 cores - (all efficiency is fine, but would take split of P/vs/E)
* (4) physical copper network interfaces. 4x1G is fine, some amount of 2.5G would be better
* at least (1) NVM-E slot
* small form factor / external power brick
NICE TO HAVE:
* more than 1 NVM-E slot
* NVM-E N-Key slot that supports the dual TPU coral adapter (x2 channels I think?)
* Less than $500 per box
* SFP+ based interfaces?
DONT CARE ABOUT:
* number of HDMI outputs
* number of Displayport outputs
* number of SATA ports (will be using network-based primary storage)
* number of USB ports
* speed of USB ports (not planning on USB-based NIC)
Thanks in advance!
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