Enjoy dude, LOL. I sense you're a little touchy, but you never really answered my question.
Also-- I was talking about MY house, not anyone else's-- no sure where your statement comes from. You had no stability issues with any of the 150+ VM's before--- running BI, or just in general??
Running 400 cameras had to be crazy in the setup you mentioned. My point was that
YOU SAID you had issues running BI on a VM. You then noted that you had an 8th gen i-5 running fine, but a BI install on a XEON / VM setup was garbage. Gee.... sounds like the VM is the issue-- doesn't it?-- especially when you consider so many here have BI running fairly easily on old dedicated hardware with up to 60 cams. So my question is, Why F with a VM for
BlueIris when you can run a cheap piece of dedicated hardware reliably for 5+ years? You came close when you said you don't want to buy a desktop every time you need to spin up a new machine. Cool. But you can't get a VM to work right with two 4k cams? That doesn't seem to bode well.
Lastly, I wasn't trying to give you shit-- I was trying to understand why you were taking that path to get BI running, so cool your jets son. Maybe if BI is different than what you are used to, it is not the right product to use for whatever you are planning in a "small business environment", OR, maybe you need to buy a desktop and configure it for the BI needs of each small-business environment customer you get.