Reply To: ESXi on ASUS PN64-E1 Hi, So it seems my HP microserver Gen 10 plus isn’t on compatibility list for esxi 8.x and therefore wont do win11 OS on a VM, meant to be a…

[kev2021]

The Gen10 plus v1 isn’t on vmware esxi 8.x compatibility list BUT v2 is.  However, v2 is basically the same price as the v1 :( which has immediately put me off and made me look elsewhere.

The problem with HPE stuff seems to be that it only works for the current version of vmware ESXi, once a new one comes out, it doesn’t meet the spec..

For example, I have microserver gen8 runining esxi 6.5, when esxi 7 same out, gen8 wasn’t supported and they have gen10, only difference was i had the gen8 for a while as they didn’t bring esxi7 out for a couple of years or so.

I think  bought the Gen10 last year, just after xmas so i’ve only had it 1 year and now esxi8 is out and seems i need different hardware again…

In comparison, supermicro have a devices out that seem to work with newer versions… for example…

Supermicro Computer, Inc SYS-E300-9D-8CN8TP Intel Xeon D-2100 Series
ESXi
8.0 U2
8.0 U1
8.0
7.0 U3
7.0 U2
7.0 U1
7.0
6.7 U3
6.7 U2
6.7 U1
6.7
6.5 U3
6.5 U2

Not sure why HPE can’t do the same.  I realise the supermicro devices are more costly but by having to keep buying new hardware to run it, its costing probably the same or more.  I know HPE needs hardware raid controller which isn’t included so that’s additional cost, not sure if supermicro has built in raid or is still additional cost and of course then there is buying the memory you want and supermicro can have much more memory, that model I posted as an example is up to 128GB ram… so much better than the 32GB max in the HPE gen 10 plus v1, although I have heard you can put in up to 64GB but its not recommended by HPE and as mine is on 24/7, I don’t want to risk any damage etc so leaving as recommended. which doesn’t take long to run out of unfortunately.

Also Gen10 plus v1 doesn’t have TPM and I believe v2? plus the gen10 v2 doesn’t seem to be much different to v1, slightly better CPU but I’ve read not massively difference performance, other thing is it can now officially take 64GB ram in v2 so thats a plus but I’d essentially be buying it for the inbuilt TPM and the ability to have 64GB ram but it seems still only 2 RAM slots so I’d have to ditch my 2 x 16GB and by 2 x 32GB modules at additional expense and *maybe* be able to sell my 2 x 16GB modules.

Kev

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