Hi all,
I'm looking at building a home server to centralise my home network but i'm not to sure if i should go down the hyper v or esxi route for the hypervisor. I haven't bought the hardware yet until i decide which way I am going to go. I have a server 2012 license (not r2) which would allow me to apply the hyper v role with two virtual machine instances I believe. Im not to sure on the esxi licensing but I'm sure it would work out more expensive for me from my little understanding of it.
Im thinking I would like to have a home domain to play with so would require a DC of course, if i was to go down the hyper v route would it be better to install server 2012 on the physical server and then have another instance of server 2012 virtualised to run as the DC? or would I be better off having the DC role applied to the physical server itself? I would like another couple of VMs maybe linux to run a plex server and perhaps another windows server for file sharing.
I do currently have a synology nas with 6tb of storage which is where everything is currently stored and shared out but i'm leaning towards moving away from this. I wasn't sure of a good way to integrate it into the network I'm looking to create, maybe backups perhaps?
Client wise I have 2 windows laptops, 1 macbook and 1 imac (not sure how these would integrate into AD though) 3 iphones, 3 tablets, smart TV, raspberry pi and an apple TV box which isn't really used.
Be grateful for any opinions on the best way to go about achieving this network setup. Would also be cool to see other home setups people have and how overkill they are
I'm looking at building a home server to centralise my home network but i'm not to sure if i should go down the hyper v or esxi route for the hypervisor. I haven't bought the hardware yet until i decide which way I am going to go. I have a server 2012 license (not r2) which would allow me to apply the hyper v role with two virtual machine instances I believe. Im not to sure on the esxi licensing but I'm sure it would work out more expensive for me from my little understanding of it.
Im thinking I would like to have a home domain to play with so would require a DC of course, if i was to go down the hyper v route would it be better to install server 2012 on the physical server and then have another instance of server 2012 virtualised to run as the DC? or would I be better off having the DC role applied to the physical server itself? I would like another couple of VMs maybe linux to run a plex server and perhaps another windows server for file sharing.
I do currently have a synology nas with 6tb of storage which is where everything is currently stored and shared out but i'm leaning towards moving away from this. I wasn't sure of a good way to integrate it into the network I'm looking to create, maybe backups perhaps?
Client wise I have 2 windows laptops, 1 macbook and 1 imac (not sure how these would integrate into AD though) 3 iphones, 3 tablets, smart TV, raspberry pi and an apple TV box which isn't really used.
Be grateful for any opinions on the best way to go about achieving this network setup. Would also be cool to see other home setups people have and how overkill they are