Hi guys, I am currently using OMV and ESXi with old hardware currently (Core 2 era, just got myself a Phenom II X4 machine) and I must say that I am learning quite a fair bit while resolving my IT needs bit by bit.
Now that I noticed that these old hardware are taking up quite a bit of space and also electricity, I am looking into consolidating them into say, one or two machines. I am thinking of having a NAS, about 2 Linux VMs running (e.g. web projects; something like a production server?) and maybe Owncloud or Baikal for my personal usage. (It will be excellent if I can even run a Windows VM, but that seems more like a long term project...)
So, for starters, should I go with a baremetal OMV setup or have that as a VM instead? I am noticing equally good results on either side, just that if I were to go baremetal OMV, setting up VMs there seems intuitive (and I don't think the machine using it can handle them since it has only 1GB of DDR2 RAM); if I were to go ESXi, setting everything up as VMs is easy, but the machine using it eats up twice as much as the baremetal OMV machine.
Thanks!