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