Anyone on here do much with virtualisation on their home setup?

Was hooked on VMware products for years, having used OVM before that but recently discovered ProxMox, and have moved everything in my home and lab onto this hypervisor.

Superb product considering it is free.

 

Only really hyper v for Windows and do I use fusion and parallels, but nothing like your stuff.. I leave that for work.

But mainly everything I'm doing at the moment is cloud based and on VMware or Hyper V

 

Not at home but a lot at work, all on VMware.

Have been using the Dell FX130 client boxes, the Deven IT ones, and they have just decided not to issue anymore updates for them so will not work with the latest version of VMware, so faced with buying over 100 Wyse P25's or similar.

Not impressed

 

I have a virtual lab at home with virtual esx clusters and virtual sans running on a Dell XPS 8700 i7, 32gb ram and SSD/HDD combo. All running through vmware workstation so nested virtual layers.

How does it compare to workstation?

 

Kinda got fed up with VMware requiring a windows box or VM for administration. Proxmox can be administered from any web browser.

Really impressed by integrated backup features
Management access through web browser
If running a cluster, multiple servers can be managed from a single webpage
Allows shell level access to the os (debian I think) beneath the hypervisor
Reportedly greater VM density per host than other hypervisors

 

Sounds good does it do nested virtualisation?

 

I haven't had cause to configure this, but it can host a nested hypervisor as a guest, or it can be hosted as a nested guest hypervisor - I hope that makes sense....

 

Yep sounds like it can do just the same as vm workstation then.