What hypervisor should I use for my rig if I want 16+ VMs?

[juno77]

I am hoping to achieve about 16 vms with my rig and I'm holding off to buying a graphics card cause I'm not sure which graphics card(s) is suitable for whatever the most effecient hypervisor I should be using.


Currently my rig is as follows:

Dual E5-2670 (non v2)
Supermicro x9da7 mobo
64 gigs 1600 ecc ram
1tb ssd

Waiting to buy graphics card(s) for when I figure out what the best hypervisor to use for 16 vms

Can anyone suggest what hypervisor I should use and then what graphics card(s) I should allow my rig for this?

Kinda stumped here, I keep getting a lot of mixed results on other forums, but I was wondering since I will be botting I should ask here

 

[DaSoul]

Smells like showing off...you bought hardware for 4-5k$ and don't even know which gpu to take? Suuuuuuure.

 

[juno77]

I'm not trying to show off, no I didn't spend that much, all I want is answer or help for my question/thread title, please no thread derailment.

 

[Apoc]

Well...

1) You're going to need a power supply that can provide enough juice to both CPUs, and (if you want 16x VMs) at least 2 graphics cards. Chances are, you'll end up with 2 power supplies. One providing CPU power and maybe 1-2 fans, and the other providing all the 12V rails for your GPU, HDD and other opticals.

2) Fairly certain 16x VMs will run like shit on air-cooling, so keep that in mind. (Dual-CPU liquid cooling is pretty hard to find, so.. yeah)

3) At least a newer generation GPU. Up to you really, but anything older than a GTX 7 series is probably not going to be able to handle the graphics strain from running VMs, and games inside them.

Lastly, you'll probably be stuck with something like VMWare, since it's one of the few that supports DirectX rendering (which most of our bots need)

 

[juno77]

VMWare workstation? I was getting the impression that a type 1 hypervisor like hyper-v 2012 windows server or ESXi would be the most effecient way to proceed with 16(+) vms

Are you sure I need 2 power supplies? I had already purchase this rosewill 1000 watt 80 plat psu: Rosewill Tachyon Series Tachyon-1000 Continuous 1000W @ 50 Degrees C ATX12V v2.31 & EPS12V v2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS PLATINUM Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Newegg.com

I was hoping I'd be okay with that. As far as the CPU cooling, I had bought 2 AIO solutions by corsair for cheap liquid cooling

As far as I can tell, VMware workstation 10 or workstation in general doesn't actually utilize the gpu but rather it emulates it? Couldn't the VMs benefit more if they could gain access to a shared GPU (like the nvidia grid, just not that expensive and I don't think I'd need that much gpu power) to take off the load from the cpu? I mean at lowest settings and very small resolution it seems ideal right?

Thanks so much for responding btw, I'm very grateful for your help