I don’t know the price of the new NCU 14 pro atm but there is different CPUs and it will be better than the microserver CPU I have now. I believe it can go either i7 or i9 CPU maybe?
Not cheap BUT I’m thinking IF it runs from the NAS then effectively, I don’t need the HP Gen10 microserver anymore so I can sell it, I also got a raid card and ilo in it so should hopefully get a few quid back as the raid card alone was over £200!
It also means that I’m no longer tied in to certain hardware like with vmware and it seems proxmox will install on virtually anything, standard desktop, server, I think I read even a mac lol. So it doesn’t seem to be hardware dependant, I guess you just need vpro for the tmp chip for win 11 and prob win 12 and other than that, up to you what you go for, I guess you could even get a normal desktop PC but where my HP microserver is isn’t too much space so don’t want anything bigger than this, could maybe go or a SFF PC if something suitable. Main thing seems to be as much ram as feasibly possible so can run the VMs. Not sure how much impact will have on NAS with VMs running off it as well as saving files and watching content from it but will have to see.
If device had raid i.e. software or similar would be a bonus if proxmox can use it as I could then use nvme drives and would be much faster to run machines or I need to figure out how to backup the VMs as some are effectively fixed i.e. the DC, it’s content doesn’t change but my DB Vm server changes frequently (updates to databases etc) and my MECM will change frequently with new packages, drivers etc so need to ensure its backed up if I run off a single nvme drive but need to look into that more as I believe there is a backup option but unsure how that works. I’m thinking once bought, the box wouldn’t need to be replaced for a fair time as would just need software updating to be able to run new OS’s etc as no longer hardware dependant etc.
Not to mention IF in theory i can by a HP Microserver gen 10+ V2 and move my ilo, rai card over to it and drives, its still going to cost me a few hundred quid to buy it so it might be a similar cost to by the Asus NCU 14+, its a smaller foot print and likely lower power cost than the microserver which i think has a 750w PSU in it? but it doesn’t run at that I don’t believe, it comes on loud at first then quietens right down after 30sec-1min and only gets loud again if temp gets really hot or a component gets really hot. I had it initially with a SSD, nothing wrong with the SSD but it seemed the box didn’t like it as temp went high and fans all kicked in meaning high noise, soon as I changed the SSD into the exact same location and cable, worked fine stayed quiet and been like that for a year or 2 now so just didn’t like that particular SSD for some reason.
Kev
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