I have not done it myself, but my understanding is GVT-g is needed for sharing the iGPU amongst VMs with SR-IOV. It should be possible to passthrough the iGPU for exclusive use by a single VM. I may be mistaken about this.
I was more curious if iKVM display still worked once iGPU is enabled. I had heard these are mutually exclusive on many boards.I have not done it myself, but my understanding is GVT-g is needed for sharing the iGPU amongst VMs with SR-IOV. It should be possible to passthrough the iGPU for exclusive use by a single VM. I may be mistaken about this.
It is actually possible... it needs ACS patch maybe even more hackish stuff. Not something you should do as it has its risks.I have not done it myself, but my understanding is GVT-g is needed for sharing the iGPU amongst VMs with SR-IOV. It should be possible to passthrough the iGPU for exclusive use by a single VM. I may be mistaken about this.
Both the supermicro boards came with CPU's which i'll use for now. The X12SCA-F came with a Core i7-10400F, the X11SAE came with a Core i5-6700. I believe neither of which have iGPU. I did pick up a Tesla M40 though, which i think will be used for transcoding and probably cloud gaming for my daughter.Just in case you're not aware, for transcoding: your X12SCA-F should passthrough iGPU from CPUs equipped with such; QSV takes the load off the CPU and is more power efficient.
Intel CPU without iGPUs are typically the -F models, so your i5-10400F does not have iGPU, but the i7-6700 does.Both the supermicro boards came with CPU's which i'll use for now. The X12SCA-F came with a Core i7-10400F, the X11SAE came with a Core i5-6700. I believe neither of which have iGPU. ...
yes, maybe only with core disable bitmap, but that is no trocket science either.is it possible to throttle down cores/turn off cores to save power?
I'll have to dig around in the bios and see what is possible. I think the I5-6700 is probably way overpowered for NAS and light service duty, but the price was right.yes, maybe only with core disable bitmap, but that is no trocket science either.
or just disable turbo boost ( if supported by your CPU )
Don't forget offsite backups, e.g., B2, AWS Glacier, OVH Cloud ArchiveWhen the server went down and didn't come back up during opnsense migration, the wife came right out and said "spend enough money to not lose 20 years of photos and media. Make it reliable" I can live with that.
Not real excited about storing data in the cloud. Trust issues.Don't forget offsite backups, e.g., B2, AWS Glacier, OVH Cloud Archive
The 6th gen was just going to run the NAS and the mythtv backend. The i7-10400F was going to do the transcoding, or even the Nvidia M40 if i can get that running. It's not intended to run all the time, just when i want to play with VMs or do number crunching. the i5-6700 was just for light duty things.If you're transcoding, Intel 6th gen doesn't do h265 well. Need to move to 7th gen for better handling, or ideally 8th+. I have a i7-6700 running Blue Iris and needed to disable h265 on a few of my newer cams to get HW accel to work right.
Not real excited about storing data in the cloud. Trust issues.
Yeah it sure is. Now i'm back on the hunt for a NAS motherboard. Puts me weeks behind again. I threw a large chunk of metal up on top of the server rack. So at least it won't happen again in any event.
My condolences on the water leak and resulting damage; that's a headache!