Very nice benchmark and remarquable silence. I've found one: the Sapphire Radeon RX 590 Nitro+. All things considered, every single upgrade path was doomed to failure unless I could find a current graphics card, silent, that would work on ESXi 5.x and get accepted by the Windows 10 guest via PCI passthrough. My main workstation was a macOS VM using an old Mac Pro Radeon that would not work on ESXi 6.x. If you happened to need an ESXi upgrade (from 5.x to 6.x for example) in order to use a new graphics card then you need to study the compatibility of this new ESXi with your other graphics cards, your other VM OSes, etc.Īnd this is where I was stuck. It requires a compatibility study: card vs motherboard, vs PSU, vs ESXi, vs VM Operating system. Problem is, one just can't choose any graphics card off the shelf and put it into an ESXi server. The fans were aging and I needed a solution. Recently this hum turned into an unpleasant high pitched sound under load. But about 1.5 year ago I've started to notice the hum of one of its graphics card. My ESXi workstation was built with power, scalability and silence in mind. I also though back then that it would allow me to pause planned obsolescence by isolating the hardware from the software. My goal at the time was to try and escape Apple's ecosystem as it was moving steadily toward closedness (and iOS-ness). Four years ago I've started a journey in workstation virtualization.
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