4. The G1610T is not your grandfather’s Celeron. It is very close in performance to an i3, and it does support virtualization. I ran VMWare on the G1610T before swapping the processor (I think you’ll be happier with VMWare, I’ve tried both and Hyper-V is not easy to setup, it really wants a domain controller, I finally got it to work without one and the disk performance on Ubuntu servers was considerably slower). I’ll post more details on my setup in the future, but on the HP Microserver N40L which is half the speed of the G1610T I’ve run a Napp-It All-in-one ZFS server for my RAID/NAS, shared the storage back to VMWare via NFS, and ran half a dozen Ubuntu VMs on top of it without issues. If you want to run a heavy database server or run 100 users off an Exchange server you might want the faster processor. The most important feature the Xeon E3 will give you on virtualization is VT-d which lets you pass a device (such as a RAID controller) directly to a virtual machine. This may or may not matter to you. Traditionally this was done for database servers that required heavy IOPS. Now days there is very little, if any performance difference between VMDKs and raw access to the drives.

 

쿨링만 된다면 E3-1290도 가능?

The motherboard in the Gen8 Microserver is an Intel C204 which is compatible with Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors in the Xeon E3 series up to the 1290 (which is 95W). You’re right that 10 minutes isn’t long enough to properly stress test.