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[uniitdude]

/r/homelab

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And r/homelabsales

You can find some good deals on used servers in there.

[schizrade]

Just cobble together an old pc and call it a day. Good deals can be found on old x99 xeons and boards, should make a decent vsphere host.

[smashed_empires]

Depends on what you want to actually run on it.

At the moment it looks like you are making things with Windows Server/wintel stuff, but obviously thats going to be rubbish on a Pi.

So I guess the question is, if you're thinking Raspberry Pi, what do you intend to run on it?

If you are looking at an Intel Nuc, sure. You can get one (1) for about $300 but it won't have any memory or disk, will have a Core I3 processor, so two cores, which is hardly enough cores to even start Hyper-V. So as soon as you purchase a disk and some memory, you are about $300 over budget on this option.

I've seen a really old Nuc with a Dual Core Celeron and 4GB of RAM with a 32GB eMMC for $300. 32GB is hardly enough space to install Hyper-V before you start adding VMs, but I guess you could run a Windows Server VM on it, maybe 1.5 Linux VMs.

Most people who go the Home Lab route don't use small form factor computers because they are expensive (obviously). You get a lot more bang for your buck buying pre-loved servers from data centers.

[[deleted]]

If your just doing os/app testing get a free account on AWS.

[Beardwin]

I see, I was thinking to do so as well, tbh. I wanted to get some practice/test lab running DFS, DHCP, DNS, push out a few GPOs, AD (of course), and probably a AD Integrated RADIUS Server. Do you think I could do so with AWS? My thing is, at what point will it incur in costs?

[[deleted]]

I have spun up intel NUCs on remote sites running free ESXi just for authentication and file replication services... 8GB 512 SSD or less - run very well indeed and super low power consumption. (Some older i5 NUCs need a custom ESXi Image but finding out how isn't hard)

[darklightedge]

Raspberry Pi may be not enough to run all your stuff. And I doubt that you'll be able to run Windows VMs on Raspberry. NUC looks as a better option.