Hello,
I had built a ESXi system originally with 5.5 on it, but have upgraded to VMWare vSphere 6.5. It runs an FX-9590 processor (220W, but undervolted) with 32GB DDR3 RAM (Max) on an ASRock 990FX Extreme9 board that is also water cooled (trying to quiet it a bit). Also have a 256GB SSD for primary drive and vSphere, and a 1TB SSHD for secondary.
It works, but if I run much more than 2 VMs it gets very sluggish and you hear all the fans ramp up so quiet kind of goes out the window which is bad since it is sitting in my office 3 feet from me. I figure part of it is the memory, the other is the CPU.
I need to upgrade to something that can handle more than a few virtual machines, minimally DDR4 and 64GB RAM, hoping this time on an IPMI board, like a SuperMicro board.
I am just not sure if I should pull the trigger on Intel Xeon system like a 8-12 core lower TDP processor, or wait on the release of the new AMD Zen Naples servers which should be Q2... I know the AMD Zen itself hasn't performed up to expectations, but in multi-threaded loads it did. The other question is will any boards with IPMI support it on launch.
I am also hoping to just pull the plug on the old system, move the drives over and boot back up, although I am probably dreaming with that.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Nathan
I had built a ESXi system originally with 5.5 on it, but have upgraded to VMWare vSphere 6.5. It runs an FX-9590 processor (220W, but undervolted) with 32GB DDR3 RAM (Max) on an ASRock 990FX Extreme9 board that is also water cooled (trying to quiet it a bit). Also have a 256GB SSD for primary drive and vSphere, and a 1TB SSHD for secondary.
It works, but if I run much more than 2 VMs it gets very sluggish and you hear all the fans ramp up so quiet kind of goes out the window which is bad since it is sitting in my office 3 feet from me. I figure part of it is the memory, the other is the CPU.
I need to upgrade to something that can handle more than a few virtual machines, minimally DDR4 and 64GB RAM, hoping this time on an IPMI board, like a SuperMicro board.
I am just not sure if I should pull the trigger on Intel Xeon system like a 8-12 core lower TDP processor, or wait on the release of the new AMD Zen Naples servers which should be Q2... I know the AMD Zen itself hasn't performed up to expectations, but in multi-threaded loads it did. The other question is will any boards with IPMI support it on launch.
I am also hoping to just pull the plug on the old system, move the drives over and boot back up, although I am probably dreaming with that.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Nathan