Hello,
I'm in a process of converting my fileserver to a AIO server. My board/cpu supports IOMMU, so I will be able to pass HBA to a guest system, but I'm not sure which way to go.
Vmware ESXi is a proven thing and works and is mainly click-click and IO passthrough works like a charm. But as far as I know, vSphere is not useful any more in 6.0 and you need vCenter and web client. Is there any recent development around that?
The other option, that I currently use is a XenServer, but I'm not sure if it support io passthrough and how well it works. Is there a lot of work to be done for making it work? Is it stable?
What would you choose?
Matej
I'm in a process of converting my fileserver to a AIO server. My board/cpu supports IOMMU, so I will be able to pass HBA to a guest system, but I'm not sure which way to go.
Vmware ESXi is a proven thing and works and is mainly click-click and IO passthrough works like a charm. But as far as I know, vSphere is not useful any more in 6.0 and you need vCenter and web client. Is there any recent development around that?
The other option, that I currently use is a XenServer, but I'm not sure if it support io passthrough and how well it works. Is there a lot of work to be done for making it work? Is it stable?
What would you choose?
Matej