At work I could use a decent server to host some of VMs for various development/test purposes and have been looking at a Threadripper setup with ECC and ESXi. If that could work, it would provide some serious bang for the bucks.
It seems that Threadripper should work with the latest ESXi update (the previous version needed SMT to be disabled), but I would like to use ECC memory and that limits my choices of motherboards quite substantially. It should not only run with ECC modules in non-ECC mode like most Threadripper boards will do, but should actually use ECC or else it would be pointless. All the motherboards that I have been able to verify (in various forums) to be working with ESXi does not support ECC properly and ECC is something I would really like to have.
Does anyone have any experience with using Threadripper+ECC for virtualization? It does not need to be ESXi if some other solutions works.
If I were to build a similarly specced Xeon or Epyc-based server, I can see that the cost would quickly skyrocket, so that is why I would like to spend some time to first investigate a Threadripper build.