Best CPU for VM's & Video?

[Vesku]

Use the 3770K you have.

 

[Ferzerp]

I've been reading up on it and video is not something I'll be doing at all on my VM's so that's not a concern. I was thinking more along the lines of controlling my physical NIC but from what I see, the benefits aren't going to help me that mcuh for what I'm doing PLUS doing so disables the ability to use vMotion which I WILL be using. So I think what I've got right now in hand (3770k + Asus P8Z77-V) will suffice for my needs.

How exactly are you going to use vmotion in a single system environment? What exactly are you going to be live migrating to where? What is your shared storage? Why are you playing with piddly hardware in this environment when the licensing (mostly OS, since you can get a licensing for a bare bones 3 node VM cluster reasonably cheap) and storage are going to be far more expensive than the hardware that you're talking about?

 

[JimPhreak]

How exactly are you going to use vmotion in a single system environment? What exactly are you going to be live migrating to where? What is your shared storage? Why are you playing with piddly hardware in this environment when the licensing (mostly OS, since you can get a licensing for a bare bones 3 node VM cluster reasonably cheap) and storage are going to be far more expensive than the hardware that you're talking about?

This is a testing environment for the most part but I will have one VM (Plex) that is in production. That server serves 5+ clients at a time (locally and over the internet). I will need the ability to migrate that VM from my VM server to VMware workstation on my main PC in the event I need to take my VM server down. I will be running ESXi within VMware workstation. All my VM's will be stored locally on the VM server (2 SSD's and one regular SATA for lesser used VM's) but all my media for Plex as well as the rest of my files are going to be stored on a NAS/SAN system with two RAID10 arrays.

And to answer the question as to why I want to play with all this on such low grade hardware, well two fold. Mainly to learn it all, and secondly for fun because I can .

 

[Makaveli]

The thing is i presumed correctly on the price target and the home needs of the user and you did not. Move along now, you have nothing more to contribute.

i'm sorry but you are wrong and I agree with Ferzerp the user never stated his budget. You made it up for him and suggested a cpu.

Your the one in here that has nothing more to contribute.

How about you ask the guy what his bugdet is instead of assuming?

OP listen to ferzerp he knows what he's talking about and isn't blinded by bias.

 

[Ferzerp]

Well, ok then.... Odd, but ok then.

By the way, I forgot for a moment that in 5.1, shared nothing vmotion is now possible. Brain fart.

 

[JimPhreak]

Well, ok then.... Odd, but ok then.

By the way, I forgot for a moment that in 5.1, shared nothing vmotion is now possible. Brain fart.

What's so odd about it? First off I have technet for the OS's I'll be using for the testing aspect (so that gives me 2 keys for WS 2008, 2012, Win7, Win 8, Office, etc.). Secondly I already own VMware workstation 9 and I can get my hands on ESXi 5.1 so pricing is not really a concern at this point. I figure the best way to learn it is to put it into practice for something I'll actually need to use on a regular basis.

 

[grimpr]

i'm sorry but you are wrong and I agree with Ferzerp the user never stated his budget. You made it up for him and suggested a cpu.

Your the one in here that has nothing more to contribute.

How about you ask the guy what his bugdet is instead of assuming?

OP listen to ferzerp he knows what he's talking about and isn't blinded by bias.

Well thanks for knowing that you're coffee partners.

 

[Ferzerp]

Grimpr, the difference between me and you is that if AMD had a compelling part, I would be suggesting that. As they do not, there is no point in trying to mislead people to purchase them.

I get the impression that you care far more about the company producing the product than the product itself.

 

[grimpr]

Grimpr, the difference between me and you is that if AMD had a compelling part, I would be suggesting that. As they do not, there is no point in trying to mislead people to purchase them.

I get the impression that you care far more about the company producing the product than the product itself.

You accuse me of misleading by humbly suggesting an 199$ desktop cpu thats fits perfect the role in virtual machines and x264 video encoding/transcoding for the needs of a home user and you consider yourself unbiased suggesting a 8core Intel Xeon? Talk about professional acting and hypocrisy, this is the last post since i wont derail the OP thread further but i will put you on my ignore list since you're actively trying to target me with false accusations and get me out of the board.

 

[Ferzerp]

What's so odd about it? First off I have technet for the OS's I'll be using for the testing aspect (so that gives me 2 keys for WS 2008, 2012, Win7, Win 8, Office, etc.). Secondly I already own VMware workstation 9 and I can get my hands on ESXi 5.1 so pricing is not really a concern at this point. I figure the best way to learn it is to put it into practice for something I'll actually need to use on a regular basis.

If you're doing it to learn, great. It's just a lot of work for some personal stuff otherwise is all. I know nothing at my home has any sort of uptime requirements at all, but learning is cool.

 

[Makaveli]

you're actively trying to target me with false accusations and get me out of the board.

You are doing a fine job of that yourself no one has to help you.

Well thanks for knowing that you're coffee partners.

Is that really the best you can do?

we don't even know each other personally.

I can just tell the difference when someone knows what they are talking about. I will not respond to you anymore in this thread cause you are trying to derail it.

And are of no help to the OP.

Have a nice day.

 

[ViRGE]

I am this close to closing this thread. But what's going on here is not the OP's fault.

Ferzerp & grimpr: Either knock it off or take a break from the forums. You're both acting like jackasses and right now we don't need either of you.

-ViRGE