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ESXi on Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast (Serpent Canyon)

11.18.2022 by William Lam // 4 Comments

The Intel NUC Enthusiast product line is typically geared towards content creators and gamers. These Intel NUCs, include Skull Canyon, Hades Canyon and Phantom Canyon, are all equipped with an onboard discrete GPU.


The Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast, codenamed Serpent Canyon, is the latest offering in this product line and it is also the first Intel NUC that includes both an Intel CPU and an Intel GPU, which is based on the latest Intel Arc graphics.

Within the VMware Community, both the Skull Canyon and Hades Canyon were extremely popular due to the additional graphics and storage capabilities at the time. With my recent updated findings on iGPU passthrough for recent Intel NUCs with ESXi and the combined compute and graphics solution from this latest offering from Intel, Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast can make for a pretty powerful and capable VMware setup!

Let's take a closer look at the new Intel NUC 12 Enthusiast from a VMware point of view!

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // homelab, Intel NUC, Serpent Canyon

Updated findings for passthrough of Intel NUC Integrated Graphics (iGPU) with ESXi

11.17.2022 by William Lam // 19 Comments

While searching for drivers for another Intel NUC platform, I saw that Intel had recently published new graphic drivers for Linux including support for their new Intel Arc GPUs. This of course got me curious on wondering whether this would help at all with the issues regarding passthrough of the integrated graphics (iGPU) for recent Intel NUCs? 🤔

As a refresher, starting with the 11th Gen Intel NUCs, passthrough of the iGPU on Windows had stopped working and would result in the infamous Windows Error Code 43 and even worse on the 12th Gen Intel NUCs, Windows would simply BSOD after the initial reboot. The behavior is also simliar for Linux operating systems, while it better handles the issue by not crashing the OS, iGPU passthrough is also not functional for Linux systems.

To be honest, I had low expectations these new Linux graphic drivers would behave any differently, but I decided for the sake of persistency that I would give it one more go. I had access to both an Intel NUC 12 Extreme (Dragon Canyon) and Intel NUC 12 Pro (Wall Street Canyon), both of which included recent Intel iGPUs.

🤯🤯🤯 is the only way I could describe what I had discovered after my testing!

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // Dragon Canyon, ESXi 7.0 Update 3, ESXi 8.0, GPU, Intel Arc, Iris Xe, Wall Street Canyon

ESXi on Intel NUC 12 Pro (Wall Street Canyon)

09.15.2022 by William Lam // 91 Comments

Many in the VMware Community, including myself, started with the classic 4x4 Intel NUC for running a VMware homelab. Over the years, this powerful little Intel NUC continues to enable a wide variety of new VMware use cases from running vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Tanzu and even vRealize (now Aria). It felt like it was just yesterday that I had switched from using an Apple Mac Mini to the latest Intel NUC (6th Generation) to build my new vSphere/vSAN Homelab, which was more than 6 years ago! 😲

While Intel continues to expand and grow their "NUC" portfolio to include many other form factors, the classic 4x4 design still has a special place for many people in the VMware community. The classic Intel NUC is not only small, portable but also extremely capable, especially with last few releases which makes this an ideal kit for those just getting started with a new VMware Homelab.

If you are in the market for an upgrade this year, definitely check out the latest refresh of this classic 4x4 design with Intel's recent launch of the Intel NUC 12 Pro, formally known as the Wall Street Canyon NUC.

Let's take a closer look at this new Intel NUC 😀

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Categories // ESXi, Home Lab, vSphere 7.0, vSphere 8.0 Tags // Intel NUC, Wall Street Canyon

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William Lam is a Senior Staff Solution Architect working in the VMware Cloud team within the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. He focuses on Cloud Native technologies, Automation, Integration and Operation for the VMware Cloud based Software Defined Datacenters (SDDC)

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