I have purchased an used Lenovo Ts440 - E3-1245 - 32gb Ram and I am still trying to figure out the best approach to use it as a Virtualization Server.
My goal is to actually run VMs on the server ranging from:
CentOS 7+, Ubuntu 20.04+, Windows Server 2019+ Essentials or Standard and some on demand OS such as Windows 10 Pro to do remote desktop and work on specific stuff.
I was looking at both Hyper-V & Vmware Esxi (Free version) to run as the main OS and I was wondering if some of you have comments, suggestions about this approach.
Right now, I am using a small 2bay NAS for NFS, dedicated i3 SSF PC for my Web Development stack and EasyBCD on my workstation for multiboot VHDX OS images.
Sadly the EasyBCD approach still left all my HDD visibles to all OS and can't run them on background.
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BigPanda
Hello Neowin,
I have purchased an used Lenovo Ts440 - E3-1245 - 32gb Ram and I am still trying to figure out the best approach to use it as a Virtualization Server.
My goal is to actually run VMs on the server ranging from:
I was looking at both Hyper-V & Vmware Esxi (Free version) to run as the main OS and I was wondering if some of you have comments, suggestions about this approach.
Right now, I am using a small 2bay NAS for NFS, dedicated i3 SSF PC for my Web Development stack and EasyBCD on my workstation for multiboot VHDX OS images.
Sadly the EasyBCD approach still left all my HDD visibles to all OS and can't run them on background.
Thank you for your help
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