Esxi late 2012 mac mini pro#
How about BootCamp? I assume I can add another drive for Windows 10? Theres a lot that I assume works from previous Mac Pro but the years of TrashCan Macs have left me skeptical so hearing about normal things working is always nice How is the day to day feel on these machines? Do you boot from the built-in SSD or are you adding other storage to boot from?įor those adding more internal storage: How has that been in terms of performance and reliability? I'm interested in 16x PCIe cards with NVMe drives, something Navi based in the GPU slot and perhaps the Promise kit to add a some HDDs.Ĭan I put in an RTX 2080 Ti and run a VM for gaming at acceptable performance under Windows 10? I do loads of virtualisation but not a lot of playing with GPUs in VMs so I'd love a sanity check on that for running some flight sims like DCS or even connecting a VR headset. Especially given the CPUs appear to be a fairly simple swap down the road. The appeal of a single mATX sized box with workstation power on multiple OSs and the ability to add RAM until you go broke is very compelling as a long term solution.
Going AMD would free up my Macs for VM work and get me something like a workstation class system, but I'd still be transferring things around. The Mac Pro is obviously appealing for this reason, but the strides AMD has made and the pressure on Intel makes me think that I could probably spend the same money as an 8 core Mac Pro and go to something like a 24 core Threadripper build or WaitAndSee what happens with rev2 and Intel. I've only got a little bit of RAM in my ESXi cluster, and 32GB in my 2018 build mini. This leads to lots of copying things back and forth and using a NAS with iSCSI to host some larger VMs. Given that I need to do some virtualisation of macOS legally I am running ESXi on a Mac mini 2012 and VMWare Fusion on my build machine.
I'm a desktop guy (again) so I've been eyeing the Mac Pro as a platform since the new one was announced. I guess am a 'Power User' but I jump between my PCs and Macs several times a day during the course of work.