What do i use for hobbying So i own several systems that can be considered homelab, not all of which are modern.
Network Mikrotik Switch (managed Layer 2), 2x 10GB and 24 1G) Routing through a old load-balancer with OPNSense (connected through 10GB) 3x Unifi UAP-AC PRO A DEC/|D|I|G|I|T|A|L| DECserver 716 console-sevrer Infrastructure The always-on stuff Dell NAS (with Debian) for: Storage (duh!) my IRC-client for communitcation NurdSpace and my former (internship-)colleagus at BIT BV Gitea This site Other stuff Intel NUC 12 pro Intel I5-1250P 64GB DDR4 (non-ECC :/) NVME 2TB SSD SATA 2TB SSD Applications: IPAM at home RKE2-cluster (which i’ll move most of the Docker-stuff to) RDS-VDI ADDC My virtual DEC VAX (HYUNA on HECnet) my connection to HECnet A zBook 15 G2 a broken GPU and ESXi 7 for my retro-stuff My Windows Server 2003 R2 DC for my vintage IT-stuff Novell Netware 6.
Why use KVM? Due to the Big.Little-like architecture of the 12th gen core-CPU’s most other hypervisors (like ESXi and Xen/XCP-NG) cannot use all cores.