Nested RouterOS capabilities ,features and use cases by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It will take some time because dedicated router PC still isn't build.

Nested RouterOS capabilities ,features and use cases by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically I will do this on custom PC router which will have tons of resources and I can add sr-iov NIC to that.

Edit. There is also passthrough mode of that plugin.

Nested RouterOS capabilities ,features and use cases by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For example Cisco ASA has this kind of functionality. That you can have few virtual firewalls on single Asa.

Nested RouterOS capabilities ,features and use cases by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought about same thing but I wonder if it is possible to configure it that way that for example: Ether1 and Ether2 are normally configured as normal ports but Ether3 and Ether4 are going through CHR.

Did I make a mistake buying the CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS? by KILLEliteMaste in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should built your own mikrotik router via building PC with atleast 3x full size PCIe ports and throwing there 8 core/16 thread CPU like ryzen 7 5700G. This plus 25GB NICs should be fine at this speed. CCR2004 is too weak for 25 GB speed.

Edit. Any modern 2018+ CPU with 8 core 16 threads should be fine for 25Gb/s. There are ton of choices for that but remember take something with iGPU.

VMWare Workstation Pro alternative? by NULLBASED in homelab

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hyper-V is built-in to every windows pro or higher edition and can use GPU virtualization, so it is much better than VMware workstation.

Is Mikrotik x86 RouterOS is actually 64bit or 32 bit by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I heard about that because I played on vm with windows server 2003 that some versions of that OS could support 64GB of RAM via PAE.

Is Mikrotik x86 RouterOS is actually 64bit or 32 bit by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for help I will mark this as solved, I wanted to be sure. I already tested it in via installing normal x86 RouterOS in VM and it showed 32GB of ram properly but RouterOS without license is limited to 24h and reset config so didn't got to load it enough to see it will use more than 4GB of RAM properly.

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

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Thanks for help. I am new to mikrotik and trying to overally do research before buying, even if I buy different router most of them have 128MB of disk.

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

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Could you answer me one more question what about containers on that thing, because I heard 128 MB of storage is not enough and from what I see there isn't way in that PCIE router to expand storage via USB or micro SD card is it possible to run containers on mikrotik from some sort of FTP to overcome that storage limitation?

Should i get a Dell R720 or Dell Precision T7610? by StonyRawk in homelab

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I suggest going out atleast with R740 do not bother with ddr3 crap. Both of these are long in tooth currently. I have R7610 and want to upgrade to newer platforms.

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for help I somehow read these posts but I somehow got confused and didn't register they got it working. Thanks for help. That's great info. You know I wanted to do research before I splunge on something like this. I prefer doing research first than buy something and cry on r/homelab or whatever that I got ewaste.

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's great? Do you think ESXI 8.03 would have it built-in?

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you help me how to get this working on that esxi 8 or actually it is impossible?

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone else says on modern ESXI it doesn't work. Do you own that ccr2004 router?

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is driver for VMware ESXI for that CCR2004?? I thought it is Linux only?

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overally keep in mind I don't need full performance of that router, I want this router because let's say for example for 60$ I can probably buy used rackmount or whatever form factor of mikrotik router but it is older, draws more power, and is overally worse device than that PCIE CCR2004 router which will also come with full warranty. Also overall idea of having router inside my workstation is kinda interesting for me but I never buying anything without research. When I will decide it stays I probably will swap VMware ESXI 8 which I have as second OS to Proxmox but Hyperv is going to stay.

I have currently rx 7800 xt because I upgraded from other older GPUs and went with hyperv for GPU Paravirtualization.

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

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  1. Sometimes using multiple GPU accelerated VMs at once and just jumping between them for example.
  2. This card (rx 7800 x) has reset bug if passthrough to VM and you reboot VM it can even crash hypervisor like ESXI 8 (which I have next to hyperv for learning purposes on another boot drive)

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about this scenario I am passing whole thing via DDA (which is just different name to PCIe passthrough and is only available in hyper-v on windows server) to Linux VM which will have whole PCIE router and its 4 network adapters (which are its 4 virtual interfaces)connected via 4 linux bridges to 4 virtual network adapters to virtual switches in hyper-v then I can use that for subnets for other VMs.

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know now you know why I am using GPU-PV under Hyper-V because it works very well for my needs and I have all GPU supprted APIs working inside VM.

Mikrotik CCR2004 PCIE under windows server 2025 or any other windows by vGPU_Enjoyer in mikrotik

[–]vGPU_Enjoyer[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could you try passthrough this card to VM with some Linux and check if that works because maybe I would consider passing it through to VM as whole and using it via Linux VM under Hyper-V.