Hello Lads and Ladettes,
I’m reaching out to ask for your help and to know your opinion. Currently I have a simple setup of RPi 3 that only serves as a DNS (pihole). I’ve read some of your posts and I got hooked. I also started playing with HyperV on my Windows PC and created a virtual linux machine (Arch btw ~for meme purposes~).
I have started thinking… What if I bought RPi 4B (8GB RAM) and use some kind of a hypervisor to selfhost DNS and DHCP (pihole), VPN, SSO and maybe even NAS (some kind of platform like plex?).
It’s all for learning purposes, so I’m not aiming for anything extra expensive, reliable or ultra-fast. I know the basics, though I’m still a beginner. I thought the RPi 4B would be a good choice as it’s relatively cheap and not energy-hungry.
My questions are: What do you think about it in general? Do you know any alternatives to VMware ESXi that I can use for virtualisation? Any tips and trick you have to share? Do you think that RPi 4B can handle such task?
Maybe you know some good, free, open source VPN and SSO services that you can recommed. For NAS I was thinking about OpenMediaVault but I would also be thankful for recommendations in that regard as well.
Thanks in advance for all the help and healthy discussion. Cheers!
Depends on where you live of course. My location power is very cheap, but even so, an old Optiplex machine with a few HDDs doesn’t use very much power, especially at idle.
Regardless though, I was just throwing out the rough concept. Your points are good, a smaller mini-PC or an old laptop even would work.
I think I’m overly sensitive because my power is very expensive and my home is getting pretty warm right now!