I know you don’t have much use case for it, but a complete Hyper-V dive might be good, simply because a lot of the Enterprise level companies already pay for the licenses needed and maybe it is the best move for a lot of places due to financing. Since there are no real strings to getting the Eval versions of Windows, seems like a good place to start if you want to create new and different content. This is a move that I need to make, Udemy course queued up, just no time to sit and go through it right now.
Server Evals are 180 days, plus 6 rearms so they last a while.
Licensing with VMware is getting “different” with VCF9, the entire ecosystem is also getting more difficult as they are “forcing” things like NSX to be installed, the next step will probably be to remove the old distributed switches and port groups, and everything will be NSX (I’m guessing VCF10 for this).
Pretty unlikely I will cover that since I lean much more open source and avoid Microsoft things. More likely that I will be doing some Proxmox content.
Harvester HCI? Another on my list because it looks interesting, especially the container integration built on Rancher. Nutanex is also on this list, but kind of slipping behind the others as the use case is similar to XCP-ng and Hyper-V. Hyper-V again because anyone with an e3/a3 or higher probably has enough Server licenses to make this “free”.
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