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It would be good to replace our family's aging Mac mini. Since I generally don't dual-boot or repurpose my virtualization servers, such consumer features offer very little value to me, for my particular use cases.Īs for dipping my toe into the macOS world though starting at just $799, a new Mac mini running VMware Fusion, and for tinkering with Boot Camp, could be interesting. Whatever happens with the inevitable Mac mini home lab enthusiast niche market, it will be interesting to see it unfold! Closing thoughtsĪs for me personally, I prefer purpose built servers with easy headless operation via IPMI, without a watt-burning GPU and uneeded audio. Prohibitive pricing on high capacity SODIMM modules could also make 64GB unrealistic for most folks.Īdmittedly conjecture, but I do believe the hard work by William Lam at virtuallyGhetto featuring Mac mini and Mac Pro along with the Thunderbolt Enabled VMware ESXi work by folks like Eric Garrison at ATTO Technology will make some level of support more of a possibility, formal or informal. We also don't know yet how many seconds max CPU Turbo speed of 4.6GHz can be actually used in such a small design, given the thermal constraints of any compact air-cooled design. It's likely you can replace the included macOS, or dual-boot away from it, but as with any secure boot system, you'll be needing to tweak the UEFI BIOS, likely having to disable secure boot. Side-stepping all that by using supported external Thunderbolt 3 devices for networking could be pricey.
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No idea whether the optional 10GbE will have ESXi drivers available natively or optionally, I suspect the consumer-only 1.0/2.5/5.0/10.0 GbE based on Aquantia will be used.
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then there's the open question of whether they'll even work with VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 1, as is, or after tweaks to the BIOS such as those needed for certain Intel NUC models, and/or tweaks to the bootable ESXi install ISO. There's a lot we don't know yet, such as the likelihood of these systems ever appearing onto the VMware vSphere Compatibility Guide, and even more of a long-shot, the VMware Compatibility Guide - vSAN.
Concerns Cool thermal dissipation animation. Then again, see the screenshot of the keynote, above. Kind of riding that IoT/Edge computing wave of small-but-powerful.
While not quite up to the Xeon D-1500 series that offered 10GbE, free web-based console, and up to 16 cores of CPU grunt way back in 2016, they're intruiging nonetheless.