Most ideal PC for virtual machines

[kh85]

Hey all,

Can anyone advise me which pc might be ideal for a home lab enviroment where i could be using Hyper V or Virtual Box. This is just to create a lab enviroment where i'd have a few servers 2019 and some host vms windows 10.

I was looking at the old hp z420, z600 variants with 64gb ram or above if it had it on the old auction site. They'd be running at the same time. I may even make a server for pushing out software to the clients.

I then saw some that could have 14 cores.

This would be done at home so pc set is more ideal.

Bit new to this but am just trying to have a very small world enviroment in lab form.

Excuse the generalness. I can answer my requirements if needs. Hopefully anyone can point me in the right path.

Cheers

 

[Tetras]

You might be better off with this question in the server forum than general hardware.

 

[Quartz]

If you want these for home use is noise going to be an issue? Server stuff can be loud.

 

[Xelene]

I havent dug into this recently, but most CPU's these days support all of the virtualisation extensions these days; Intel used to hide them whereas it was open for AMD. The hypervisors also definately do not like a combo of performance and efficiency cores; so again AMD wins this one. For memory (and I am not up to date) the AMD chips did support ECC out of the box. Finally, if you are planning to run this seriously then AMD is much metter; Wendel had some choices.

 

[kh85]

Hey,

Yeah home use. Noise isn't too much of a problem. I won't be using one of those rackable servers, they deffo kick out some noise

Currently using an older i7 4th gen, 32gb ram which is ok but cpu bumps up quite high once the vms are running. I was looking at the hp z400, hp z600 series. Some come with 8 cores 16 threads. Some 10 cores 20 threads, then the 14 cores. So i spose i need to know for a cheapy lab enviroment which spec is better for what i want to do really.

Cheers again, can this post be moved to servers?