> If I want my Supermicro/Quanta/Dell to boot from an image in a similar fashion I have to build the image, I have to host the image, I have to make it availabl

> If I want my Supermicro/Quanta/Dell to boot from an image in a similar fashion I have to build the image, I have to host the image, I have to make it available on the network, I have to configure DHCP, I have to configure the BMC (and Redfish is probably not implemented quite right, lets be honest here), then I can boot from it. I think a more fair example is that you somehow provision your VM’s semi-automatically, and you may or may not have Proxmox/Hyper-V/ESX image to populate your physical servers. If you go to maintaining your own infra, you’d still use virtual machines for the actual workloads probably.