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I'd use it for home labs or servers.
by crypt0ninja 8y ago
I'd use it for home labs or servers.
- ekianjo 8y agoHome servers? In what situation would you ever need 32 cores for home usage? I'm genuinely curious.
- rhencke 8y agoBuild servers, video conversion/streaming, and hosting game servers are use cases that would certainly benefit from this in a hobbyist/home environment.
- afroboy 8y agoVMs
- PuffinBlue 8y agoAnd just to expand on that, I'd like to (for instance) run multiple remote desktops (including a photo editing station), probably a decent plex/emby VM, probably something to do transcoding etc etc. Not to mention dev VMs etc. You can do a lot with one thing and administer that one thing without having lots of individual boxes doing stuff, and for me it'd be way faster and a single cost, so it'd work out as a big improvement. In a 'money is no object have all the time in the world' it would probably be better to have something dedicated to do each task, but that's not that flexible on top of the other drawbacks (cost in money/time).
- zaarn 8y agoVMs, lots of them. Atm I'm running about 15 VMs on about 8 cores in a dedicated box somewhere and it's definitely noticable. I would love to shove some core services at home and have 32 cores to play with to give some more headroom
- ekianjo 8y agoWhy not use containers instead of VMs? You can run about 10x more Docker instances than VMs on the same hardware.
- deadbunny 8y agoBecause contrary to the hype, containers aren't the right solution to everything.
- mileycyrusXOXO 8y agoWhile you are correct that they are not a one size fits all solution, would you care to elaborate to the specifics of this instance?
- deadbunny 8y agoBecause not everything I want to run in best suited (or even available) to linux.
- CorpOverreach 8y agoBecause all of the containers may not be of the same operating system? Networking on containers is also a bit different. There are also reasons for having some more isolation between guest OSes. On my ESXi box at home I have: * A VM that hosts my NAS shares. This does nothing other than host the NAS shares, as I want to be sure no silly experiment of mine interferes with that. * A general-purpose VM, where I do run some containers out of (UniFi controller, Plex, etc) * A VM running Windows Server for my Domain Controller * A secondary vSwtich with isolated no uplink to the rest of the network. This is my mini malware testing lab. * A VM running pfSense that I'll sometimes use to allow selective access out of the isolated vSwtich out to the internet, but not to the rest of the network. Can't do all that with containers.
- barkingcat 8y agoIf you want to run multiple different OS's (or even different distributions of the same OS) containers don't work.
- bad_login 8y agoI would use it to mine bitcoin and heat my house in winter, I already have a slogan : "Don't be a patsy who pay for heating your place, be paid for it. Order our heating device for just $2999!"
- gaius 8y agoYou jest but this is a thing https://www.networkworld.com/article/2929810/data-center/home-heating-provided-by-cloud-servers-is-now-a-reality.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/2929810/data-center/hom...