Hi I am planning on building a new workstation this summer and would like some guidance on my choice of hardware. I primarily use Autodesk Inventor and 3Ds Solidworks at work (windows softare) and have been asked if I can teach people basic CAD on my own time (read I need need 2 pcs that can run this software). Right now I don't have a PC at home remotely capable of running these applications and I plan on assembling one. In order to keep cost down I would like to buy only one CPU,motherboard etc and use KVM with GPU passthrough for at least two windows guests. So far I've used ESXI at home with good results and played a little with KVM/virt-manager.
Right now I am looking at purchasing the following:
1x Super Micro X11SAE-F
1x I3 6100 (I just need decent single thread performance and would like ECC) I could move up to a xeon if need be
2x 16GB ECC DDR4 DIMMS
2x Nvidia GPUs (probably 960ti used)
1x 1000w power supply
It has to:
passthrough GPU to 2 windows guests
Run 2 windows guests with inventor/solidworks
Be stable under load
Are there any problems I should be expecting with my current list of hardware? I know Nvidia doesn't like their consumer GPUs being used in VMs but it looks like KVM has that taken care of. Do I need any special instruction set available to run more than one guest with GPU passthrough?
Thanks!
Right now I am looking at purchasing the following:
1x Super Micro X11SAE-F
1x I3 6100 (I just need decent single thread performance and would like ECC) I could move up to a xeon if need be
2x 16GB ECC DDR4 DIMMS
2x Nvidia GPUs (probably 960ti used)
1x 1000w power supply
It has to:
passthrough GPU to 2 windows guests
Run 2 windows guests with inventor/solidworks
Be stable under load
Are there any problems I should be expecting with my current list of hardware? I know Nvidia doesn't like their consumer GPUs being used in VMs but it looks like KVM has that taken care of. Do I need any special instruction set available to run more than one guest with GPU passthrough?
Thanks!