Cheap and green homelab – Part III

The last few weeks my homelab made a whole different turn. No ESXi, No Hyper-V, No XEN Server. I gave Proxmox a try, and I’m loving it. You get a fully functional and competing virtualisation environment for free. Yes, you can buy support subscriptions, but apart from that you get the whole package opposed to VMWare.

The web interface is pretty awesome. Taking over the console is easy and uses a small Java applet or Spice. This is a huge pre for Proxmox compared to ESXi and Hyper-V which require a Windows client for management purposes.

Give it a try. You’ll love it!