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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by Nextgrid on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:27PM (#20689340)
At a potential performance penalty and significant extra attack surface (you now have to worry about your hypervisor’s attack surface and your actual OS’ attack surface, where as on bare metal you only have a single OS to worry about). Not to downplay the advantages of virtualisation, but if all you needed was a bare metal server then running a hypervisor adds one extra thing that can go wrong that you didn’t ask for.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by amanzi on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @04:12PM (#20689739)
Most (if not all) home lab users will be using virtualisation to spin up multiple VMs.
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Re:My Home Lab Server with 20 Cores / 40 Threads and 128 GB ... by zrm on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @07:09PM (#20691182)
> you now have to worry about your hypervisor’s attack surface and your actual OS’ attack surface

But the same is true of iLO. Worse in that case, because the iLO won't receive security updates for as long and is less well scrutinized in general than common Linux distributions.

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