Earlier this week, I announced that I’m looking to expand the resources I have at my disposal for homelabbing, and just a few days ago, I posted a pretty lengthy list of criteria I took into account planning my potential expansion. Today, I’ll be talking about what my options for expansion are and how well they might fit my needs.
Do nothing – Definitely the cheapest and least exciting option. Limping along with at most 12GB of RAM and 3 CPU cores for VMs, I wouldn’t be able to have too much running at the same time. Previous experiments with the likes of Server 2012 r2 and a few desktop OSs have definitely made this look like a recipe for frustration and resource-choked VMs.