What would you recommend would be useful home servers. I want to use my recently replaced PC as a little home server, once I take the GPU out, it won’t use to much power. I was thinking of a type 1 hypervisor and a vm for pfsense. What other things are useful? I just want a project to work on really.
basically, you put pfsense in one VM, linux in the other, inside linux you install docker, and run things in containers in docker, you could also add another linux vm as your workstation… that’s kind of a typical setup.
Another really simple homeserver to setup is freenas - it’s primary usage is for storage (hence the name) but since it is running FreeBSD you can also run stuff in Jails or VM’s too.
UniFi Video (hub) // This is interesting as you’d want to write data to Surveillance drives; not sure I’d want to kill a ZFS box with such load. It makes for a great use-case for PCIe pass-through.
Right now I’m running a Pentium G4600 + Asus Z270 Prime-A setup + 2x 4TB WD Purple drives for this purpose; if I can get IOMMU working, at some point, I’d prefer to virtualise it as well.