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long-rear end nips Diane posted:I have a NUC that I run 6-ish VMs on at a time but it can be hard to keep it in the $600 price range once it's all kitted out. Same; its my "off-cluster" lab box. That said, be sure it's a model with the drivers that match your OS. I know the 5i5MYHE has Server 2012 R2 drivers; some models do not.
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bigger thicker loads posted:I've used a couple NUCs in the past, I didn't think they would be powerful enough to run multiple VMs. I'll take a look at those, thanks! An SSD makes the biggest difference, followed closely by maxing out RAM. CPU is rarely a limiting factor on VMs these days (depending on your workload of course). That said, beware that unless you go USB, youre stuck with a single NIC
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big money big clit posted:The new 6th gen NUCs have the benefit of being supported out of the box by vanilla ESXi without having to build your own custom image to get nics working.  Now I want to upgrade my perfectly fine 5th gen NUC for literally no real reason.
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ErIog posted:I would say more like, "be aware," and I wouldn't call that a huge deal. A second NIC seems like it would be handy for some use cases, but it's not like you can't work around it with software networking. Oh I agree; I wasnt trying to get at the negative connotation of "beware" but rather just making sure they're aware. It's never been an issue; sometimes I wish I had a second NIC for SAN traffic, but thats a pretty edge-case scenario I think.
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