I have an ESXi hypervisor running Windows 10 for BI for many years now and started using CPAI for detection a couple of years ago using the custom ipcam models.
Detection works fairly well but the detection times are really bad (500+ ms) so I am experimenting with using a Coral USB I had access...
I've been running Milestone on an older desktop i7 based PC for years but that box is getting old and I'm getting ready to put it out to pasture. I have built a new workstation class machine that is running ESXi 6.7U3 so that I can start splitting off different home tasks into different VMs...