Hyper-V with Core i5

[Bigmonster200cm]

Can i run a Hyper-V Server(Datacenter) with a Core i5 ?

[leadeater]

You can yes, you'll be a bit limited in the number of VMs you can run but there is no technical or feature limit that will stop you. Could you tell us the exact model of i5 just to make sure.

[Simon771]

Sure you can. But probbably max 3 hyper-v machines. 1 core for your host and 1 core for each of those hyper-v machines.

Depends what will you be using those virtual machines .... for running proxy or something like that it won't be any problem. But for something like isolated rendering ... well it will work, but it will be pretty limited and will take hours before anything gets done.

 

Or you can over commit CPU cores and have one big cluster sex.

[Bigmonster200cm]

54 minutes ago, leadeater said:

You can yes, you'll be a bit limited in the number of VMs you can run but there is no technical or feature limit that will stop you. Could you tell us the exact model of i5 just to make sure.

Core i5 4460

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, Bigmonster200cm said:

Core i5 4460

It's got the 3 key features a CPU needs to support virtualization so you should be fine.

 

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• Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) ^‡Yes
• Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d) ^‡Yes
• Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT) ^‡Yes

 

[samiscool51]

so long as it supports SLAT (windows 10 pro and server 2016) it will work without problem

you will be limited on how many virtual systems you can have though, most i5's are quad cores without hyper threading, you can prob have one virtual system with 2 cores and leave your system with 2 cores for background apps like an antivirus