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Should I go with Ubuntu Server or TrueNAS Scale or something else?

  • I suggest a Hypervisor on the hardware always. Promox, ESXi or Xen. Then run your large OS’s as VM’s on top, you won’t regret it.

    • Should I go with Ubuntu Server or TrueNAS Scale or something else?

  • I suggest a Hypervisor on the hardware always. Promox, ESXi or Xen. Then run your large OS’s as VM’s on top, you won’t regret it.

    • Homelabs - it's a journey not a destination.

  • I am about 25 years into the journey of doing IT more than just using a computer as a computer.

    Early memories are having the side of my PC case open with IDE hard drives sticking out the side so that I had more storage.

    • Just picked up one of these bad boys - HP Z840

  • Yes, it’s free. ESXi is part of the vSphere stack.

    Get installing and get self hosting :)

    • Just picked up one of these bad boys - HP Z840

  • 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?

    • Just picked up one of these bad boys - HP Z840

  • Welcome to the club !!

    No your not tripping. These are solid VM machines with loads of options on how you populate them with storage.

    • I have received more ancient servers. This time a DL380 G4, SCSI version

  • Oh my this was their active sever in 2023 ? What OS was it running ? I played with these or Compaq G3 long long ago.