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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.
buulamAdmin
AdminI 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?