The Adaptive Hypervisor technology automatically allocates your Mac CPU resources between the virtual machine and OS X applications, depending on which application you are working with at the moment. If your virtual machine window is in focus, priority of this virtual machine processes will be. If you’re like me, my main machine is a Mac. But I know that Windows users are an extremely important demographic for most of my websites. Browser differences are commonplace and need to be dealt with. Today, let’s look at how we can set up a virtualized Window 10 environment on your Mac for free.
You should be looking at Desktop virtualization (VMware Horizon View) and not server virtualization (VMware ESXi & vCenter). Running Virtual desktops on desktops for Dev is a totally different matter from running them in production mode.taken from For those who want the Mac OS X to be able to run in a VM, from a pure technical standpoint, that's possible today. (You just basically hackintosh OS X into a VM.) And actually from a legal standpoint, it appears that it's also ok to run OS X in a VM as long as the VM host is running on Apple-branded hardware. There's even talk that the next version of VMware vSphere will officially support OS X (which we assume is only legal if vSphere was running on Apple hardware). Max the ram out on the mini. Pop in a decent sized SSD (I prefer Samsung pros).
Attempt the install of ESXI or XenServer (in theory Hyper-V 2016 should work, if you'd like to find out I can after thanksgiving give it a try). Once you have a Type-1 hypervisor installed you can install as many Apple VM's legally as you want since it is on Apple hardware which is like having Windows Server 2016 Datacenter.
Alternatively if you want the server version of Apple OS then download it, last time I checked its only like 19.99 or 29.99 vesus paying 300+ bucks for it back in the day!. If you do a Type-2 hypervisor, same rules apply your just sharing resources with host. Edited Nov 23, 2017 at 17:57 UTC. Couple things. ESXi is the only serious type 1 hypervisor I've seen running Mac OS X VM's. For one off development Fusion isn't bad as a type 2. VMware internally has MacMini build farms (No they are not offically supported, but yes they work).
You can put a FC HBA on a Pro (Someone make them) to do shared VMFS between MacPro's. I've done this before with a game developer.
At large scale I've seen someone use ATTO's Drive carriers to hold drives for vSAN with MacPro's. (Can't say who, but it's a major brand). This sounds crazy, but hey, it's one way to deal with crazy licensing requirements. DavidCSG wrote:At the same time, you can’t create a software raid in OS X & yet then install ESXi, that’d nullify the OS & software RAID. Get a Sonnet Thunderbolt to PCIe adapter & Fiber card, or Attotech, need to research what is usable at the (ESXi) hypervisor level. Or look into iSCSI.
OS X itself doesn't support iSCSI (not that you would need it for this as it would sit on VMFS which should be fine). KrisLeslie wrote:.
Pop in a decent sized SSD (I prefer Samsung pros) Samsung Pro's are consumer grade. Careful with power loss protection on them. StorageNinja wrote: Couple things. ESXi is the only serious type 1 hypervisor I've seen running Mac OS X VM's. For one off development Fusion isn't bad as a type 2. VMware internally has MacMini build farms (No they are not offically supported, but yes they work). You can put a FC HBA on a Pro (Someone make them) to do shared VMFS between MacPro's.
I've done this before with a game developer. At large scale I've seen someone use ATTO's Drive carriers to hold drives for vSAN with MacPro's. (Can't say who, but it's a major brand). This sounds crazy, but hey, it's one way to deal with crazy licensing requirements. DavidCSG wrote:At the same time, you can’t create a software raid in OS X & yet then install ESXi, that’d nullify the OS & software RAID. Get a Sonnet Thunderbolt to PCIe adapter & Fiber card, or Attotech, need to research what is usable at the (ESXi) hypervisor level.
Or look into iSCSI. OS X itself doesn't support iSCSI (not that you would need it for this as it would sit on VMFS which should be fine). KrisLeslie wrote:. Pop in a decent sized SSD (I prefer Samsung pros) Samsung Pro's are consumer grade. Careful with power loss protection on them. KrisLeslie wrote: Storage Ninja, I hear you, but if it's a matter of 'power' being an issue, a stop by Walmart or Best Buy will yield you a UPS. Short of that, what else would be a factor?
Just what I've seen in the field? Here's a random 10 I've actually seen happen. Someone trips over the power cable (This happens a lot more than you'd think) 2.
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Server straight up crashes (Purple/screen/Blue Screen causing a non-planned reboot that drops power to the drives) 3. HBA or Controller reset, or failure that drops power if power to drive was contengent on power coming from SAS 8087. Midplane reset (if using more than 8 drives per PHY) 5. Motherboard failure, causing server to power off). PSU failure (especially if non-redudant) 7. PSU bridge failure (Seen this happen in a TwinServer frame so the 'redundant' power become non-redundant and failed). Some poor idiot does a hard reset of the server to the wrong hypervisor.
Said poor idiot does a hard reset of the wrong server at the IMPI/iDRAC/iLO basis. UPS fails from (Environmental, battery leak, someone forgot to service it). Wallmart or Best buy grade UPS's will also not likely work for what you are looking for for a few reasons. They generally lack the ability to be programed by ESXi to auto shutdown the VM's cleanly and shutdown the host (USB/Powerchute stuff doesn't generally fly here).
People undersize them to run long enough for a clean shutdown. They are not double conversion so they don't really do anything against hard spikes. You can't put them in a real datacenter/Colo that has UPS's in the facility. You cause double sine wave problems, and I've yet to find a colo that will warn you when it's power is going to fail, but I've seen plenty who's power has 5.
You can't get an auto-fire/transfer switch generator from BestBuy to go with it. The one exception where I MIGHT accept this risk is a place like 1301 Fannin where I personally know how the generators, power grid mix, A/B Double transfer mixed power so you don't loose individual rails and cause break trips, but even when I had gear in there I still spent the money for the above reasons where I was one operations error away from data loss. Lastly, I had a VDI lab in my office that was running on Samsung Pro's and EVO's and we had silent data corruption from power loss even though it was on a cheap UPS. I know there's a lot of armchair sysadmins here who give advise here without having experience but I generally speak from things I've seen.