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I am planning to buy PC in which I want to configure esxi or hyper v for only practise purpose. Can you please advice me if below configuration is good for my PC as this configuration comes under my budget

1. Intel® Core™ i3-6100 Processor
(3M Cache, 3.70 GHz)
2 . Gigabyte Motherboard
GA-Q170TN (rev. 1.0)
Intel® Q170 Chipset -

3 . DDR4 32GB RAM

Also in some intel processor , there is no vpro technology support , is vpro required for virtualization.

Please advice .

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The i3 6100 supports VT-d, which is needed for virtualization.

Vpro is more of a management engine. Not required for anything you'd want to do.

For VMs. I would suggest at least a core i5. (depending on the usage)

If you want to load ESXI, make sure your motherboard NIC is supported.
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The i3 6100 supports VT-d, which is needed for virtualization.

Vpro is more of a management engine. Not required for anything you'd want to do.

For VMs. I would suggest at least a core i5. (depending on the usage)

If you want to load ESXI, make sure your motherboard NIC is supported.
 
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Thanks for suggesting.

Is Gigabyte Motherboard GA-Q170TN is good for virtualization . And can i go with this Intel® Core™ i5-6400 Processor(6M Cache, up to 3.30 GHz) .

And in most processors there is no hyperthreading feature available . Can you please let me know if i go with this or not

Thanks in advance. :)


 
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If you're running enough virtual machines to need 32Gb of ram, you'd definitely need an i5 or i7.

That motherboard will be fine for an i5-6400.

Hyperthreading is practically useless in a VM environment where you're expecting Optimized VMs running at 100% load.. But in other cases, it's handy.

The i5 will give you better performance overall for CPU-intensive virtual machines.

4 core / 4 thread, no hyperthreading is better than: 2 core / 4 thread, hyperthreading.


Also, flash-based storage is a must.
 
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Thanks for making my confusion clear . I believe flash based storage is SSD which you are talking above. Can you suggest me this also 128 GB is good.
 
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Are you sure about that?

CPU specs for Intels say this:
Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ‡ Yes
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ‡
No

and if you look up VT-d it's for more powerful operations.
I think just to have virtualization you just need vt-x.

http://www.howtogeek.com/213795/how-to-enable-intel-vt-x-in-your-computers-bios-or-uefi-firmware/


 
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