Software and h/w for VMs farm?

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Need to get some advice from this forum.

I am thinking to build a box to host VMs/Containers for home/small buz use.
Nothing too powerful, want to host several say 2-3 Windows and 2-3 Linux VMs, possible to move pfSense to it

I like Intel NUCs I7 - they come with 32 GB RAM max.
I’d prefer 64GB, some people were saying that it’s possible for specific memory types (not sure if true?)

And for software - use https://www.proxmox.com/en/

So wonder what other people use/suggest on this topic?

Thx

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What’s your goal? To just host some VMs or to learn a virtualization platform? For a home lab I would probably use different hardware than for a business client, but the software would be the same.

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Both goals, to host and learn
But home user

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You could use that hardware. Would you run proxmox as your hypervisor for a business? I use Hyper-V for my clients, so that’s what I run in the lab.

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I wonder if somebody knows an option of small PC box like NUC with IPMI capabilities ?

I saw something about Intel’s remote management module RMM but looking for real users’ experience.

The goal is to be able to manage box via console remotely

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The little HP MicroServers have ilo. (Integrated Lights Out) You have to purchase a license for remote console after it boots, but it’s viable. They are great for a home lab because they are small and quiet.

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Would you share a link to this product ?

Also how much is the a license you know?

Thx

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The server:

HP makes a bunch of different configurations on those microservers. Some with Intel processors and the cheap ones use AMD.

ilo license:

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Thanks, you gave me food to digest :roll_eyes:

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Has @LTS_Tom done a review of these running FreeNAS?

They seem to be reasonably priced and capable.

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STH has a new post building out a TrueNAS Core systen with VM Ware hosting compute nodes. Just saw it on Linkedin and is on their site was posted by IX Systems.