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buulam
Admin
AdminFavorite hypervisor for home lab?
In publishing Home Lab Server Build Using an Intel NUC and Free VMware ESXi 7 and supplemental video, I got several folks suggesting I try Proxmox. In conversation with AlexBCT , it sounds like it i...
mihaic
MVP
MVPI am using also Intel NUC and Vmware ESXi 7.
I also have an eve-ng VM, where I've installed an F5 VE machine.
- buulam
I haven't encountered eve-ng. Any interesting features to note with it?
- mihaic
Eve-ng is useful when you want to do a networking lab with different types of devices like F5, Cisco switches/routers, etc. Of course, you will need the OS for each.
This is what my small F5 lab topology looks like:
this eve-ng is a VM on an Intel NUC.
net 1 is for management.
net 2 is so I can access the VIPs from my home network.
the other boxes are small linux boxes (web servers and a client)
- buulam
Ah gotcha, so this is a better alternative to something like GNS3?
AlexBCTCumulonimbus
I had a play with EveNG a while ago, but was surprised how poorly it was being maintained (slow releases and features). Love the idea of the layout that they had, but the lack of updates put me off. How is that looking nowadays? What are your experiences with it? (...or did I just not take enough time to appreciate it? 😉
