How would you guys go about this Virtualbox project? (VM virgin btw)

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

Basic Idea

1. Get a AMD FX based PC and put lots of smaller HDD's and SDD's in it
2. Use Virtualbox, to run multiple distributions of Linux (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu), Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Windows 10
3. Windows 10 VM would be a type 1 VM

What would you use as the base OS, windows or linux?

[Electronics Wizardy]

If you want a box to just run vms, id run a os made for this, like proxmox or esxi. Then you have a web gui to manage this.

 

This should work fine.

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

Which is better of the two OS's Proxmox or esxi, in your opinion?

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

If you want a box to just run vms, id run a os made for this, like proxmox or esxi. Then you have a web gui to manage this.

 

This should work fine.

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, KING OF THE DIRTY DANS said:

Which is better of the two OS's Proxmox or esxi, in your opinion?

 

id start out with proxmox

 

better depends on use.

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

Ok. thank you for the recommendation 

[BrinkGG]

7 minutes ago, KING OF THE DIRTY DANS said:

Basic Idea

1. Get a AMD FX based PC and put lots of smaller HDD's and SDD's in it
2. Use Virtualbox, to run multiple distributions of Linux (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu), Windows 8.1, Windows 7, and Windows 10
3. Windows 10 VM would be a type 1 VM

What would you use as the base OS, windows or linux?

Better way to go about it is xeon workstations with a windows or freeBSD/Linux hypervisor (HyperV from microsoft, UnRAID, ESXi, ProxMox, etc.) 

I personally use Freenas, but don't recommend it (LONG List of reasons, working on switching to UnRAID or Prox) since it uses Bhyve for VM integration and requires a lot more permission modding, plus windows VMs are limited to 2 cores, so that sucks. 

If you want to build something similar to what I have, (2x 6 core xeon, 32 GB ddr3 ECC, 2x4TB hard drives, 4x128GB SSDs, Quadro 4000, etc.) I bought a Dell Precision T5600 off of ebay and upgraded it. Totaling about $550-600

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

1 minute ago, Brink2Three said:

Better way to go about it is xeon workstations with a windows or freeBSD/Linux hypervisor (HyperV from microsoft, UnRAID, ESXi, ProxMox, etc.) 

I personally use Freenas, but don't recommend it (LONG List of reasons, working on switching to UnRAID or Prox) since it uses Bhyve for VM integration and requires a lot more permission modding, plus windows VMs are limited to 2 cores, so that sucks. 

If you want to build something similar to what I have, (2x 6 core xeon, 32 GB ddr3 ECC, 2x4TB hard drives, 4x128GB SSDs, Quadro 4000, etc.) I bought a Dell Precision T5600 off of ebay and upgraded it. Totaling about $550-600

I actually have a quadro 4000, lol

Is going with xeons a better bet if its more for general computing and gaming?

[BrinkGG]

2 minutes ago, KING OF THE DIRTY DANS said:

I actually have a quadro 4000, lol

Is going with xeons a better bet if its more for general computing and gaming?

No. Honestly for what you want to do you should have 2 seperate computers.

Games like less cores more speed, Server applications like more cores and don't care about speed. 

What are you planning on Using these VMs for? That will determine what I recommend. 

[KING OF THE DIRTY DANS]

Linux ones (for general computing, to get familiar with the terminal prompts and Steam Play/Proton, and to find a distro I enjoy,)

Windows 10 (gaming, UE 4, Blender)

Windows 8/7 (Blender and UE 4, backwards compatibility with older games)