It’s on sale right now, I got mine yesterday at 392, it’s up to 449 right now.
HP Z840 AutoCAD Workstation 2X E5-2637 V3 8 Cores 16 Threads 3.5Ghz 128GB 250GB SSD 2TB Quadro K2200 Win 10 Pro (Renewed) https://a.co/d/0cwGttl)
128 GB OF RAM??? I just bought a beelink for 200 and I’m regretting it terribly after I bought this, if this thing performs how I think it will I’ll be able to literally run a shit ton of virtual machines and darker containers and anything I can think of basically my entire home lab on this one machine. Am I tripping? Is this not as good as I think it is?
What operating system would you recommend? I was thinking maybe proxmox? Because then I can put a bunch of virtual machines of other operating systems on it I want to try open media vault and a few others
ESXi is my go to hypervisor but I think proxmox is more popular here & /r/homelab.
Either way, yes 100% you should put a hypervisor on it.
If you are not going to do hardware RAID on the server then one small SSD for the OS I suggest then another high quality SSD (2.5 or Nvme via a PCIE adapter) for VM storage primary storage then a HDD if you want storage on the server also.
I often have a VM with 2 virtual disks assgined, one on the SSD and one on the HDD.
Why did you remove the text of the post hah?
Aw. But I’m thinking of all the self hosting thing I’m going to do with it! Lol. Thanks for the reply bud. Is ESXi free? That’s similar to vSphere right? I used that a lot in college.
Yes, it’s free. ESXi is part of the vSphere stack.
Get installing and get self hosting :)