esxi

Now that I had an ESXi up and running successfully, it was time to decide on the VMs that will run. The clear-cut choices were one Ubuntu server and one Windows server. The former would be running docker and all the containers, whereas the latter would provide LDAP (with Active Directory) and DNS services. Pretty good with those two, I started looking for something that can serve as a NAS....

As you might have seen in my previous post, I now have an Intel NUC to set up as an all-in-one server. It should handle all the docker containers I previously had running on my PC and serve as a NAS. Other than that, I had plans for having an LDAP server and DNS server as a backend for Pi-hole. My initial thoughts were to use an Ubuntu server for everything that I mentioned above....