Yea that's true. ESXi/vSphere can be very relavent although I found that it was easy enough to learn on the job. The real complicated stuff of vSphere probably

Yea that's true. ESXi/vSphere can be very relavent although I found that it was easy enough to learn on the job. The real complicated stuff of vSphere probably isn't going to come up in a homelab but if experience is necessary to get the job then it's worth it. pi-kvm looks very nice. I would really like to not have to use iDRACK or pay the license fee. Normal ATX motherboards do lack a lot of features. I'm not sure why none of the normal mobos don't just use LVFS [1] to update the BIOS but luckily they can read the update file directly off the vfat EFI partition so pi-kvm would solve that. I think every modern ATX motherboard also supports UEFI network boot so you could setup a simple DHCP+iPXE server for onboarding machines. [1] https://fwupd.org/ https://fwupd.org/