What do you do with your VM's

Personally I run anything semi important (file servers etc) in a VM and keep a baseline snapshot so when I get bored, play with it and break something, it's a 'rollback to snapshot' away from working again.
 
I presume this for home use?

Callmanager cluster
A few application specific VMs (don't want to lose the settings when rebuilding my PC and want to access them from other computers)
Trying new software
Linux (don't like dual booting my PC)

48GB of RAM means I can be a little wasteful with what I put in a VM. Plus making a duplicate of a VM takes 2 seconds and I love the snapshot feature.
 
Generally testing/evaluation. I have both my microservers configured as Hyper-V hosts with server 2012 and run things like domain controllers, backup server, file server, email server, media/download server, Ubuntu box etc.

Pretty much anything I need really. As said above, they are so easy to backup, migrate, snapshot that it doesn't matter if I break something while trying new stuff :)
 
Fileserver, Backup server, TF2/Minecraft server, Webserver, HTPC,

Then w/e else I happen to be playing around with at the time
 
I run an ESXi 5.5 lab with Server 2012 R2 with MediaPortal TV server (2 DVB-S/S2 cards), server 2012 with exchange 2013 and a windows 7 test VM for mediaportal testing of new releases, code and other in progress updates to the TV software.

The Server 2012 R2 effectively is my AD, cloud backup, JBOD storage (LSI megaraid card), tv server to the rest of the house for Sky TV And FTA.

I'm eventually going to virtualise all my HTPCs in to one machine and feed from a central place to each room via an HDMI cable... And then I might have a go with the normal PCs too, virtualise them for gaming so I only have two hdmi sockets per room and a couple of USB ports for mouse/keyboard.
 
Currently have mine running a test VDI environment using a couple of different brokers and app delivery systems. This is running all on VMware Workstation as it was cheaper to host on my desktop and bump its resources up than buy another machine and put enough memory and performance in that without going for a full on server like a DL360/DL380.
 
I use mine to simulate my production environment. For example if I am fiddling with mdadm or just data in general even though I take a backup before I start I like to make absolutely sure of what i'm doing.
 
I use mine for testing deployments before I make them. Running some strange operating systems to get a decent feel for how they work and using them for development work so I don't clog up my main computer with all of my development tools.
 
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