@JaredBusch said:

Blatant "restrictions" like not using bootcamp or a VM means you are limited to command line for pretty much everything.

XenServer will obviously be the easiest because you can natively use SSH to get in from your Mac console and manage everything.

VMWare can also have SSH enabled, but it is not by default.

Hyper-V will be the odd one out here, but Microsoft does offer a RDP client for Mac. I do not know if it will work with Hyper-V server or not, but Hyper-V server can have remote desktop enabled easily enough. Still it is all command line once logged in to the RDP session, because Hyper-V server only has command line.

I don't want to fire up a VM or reboot entire computer every time I need to do something with VM host.
There are some GUI management tools for Xen and KVM for OS X, but the biggest limitation is Adtran vwlan. It's officially supported only on Esxi, but there are reports of it running on KVM, and it runs on Virtualbox, but I don't want type 2 hypervisor.

@scottalanmiller said:

If you have VirtualBox working, why would you consider Fusion? If you are going to use a Type 2, VirtualBox is the one to use. But I really doubt you want a type 2.

I want to get rid of Virtualbox, that's why I bought NUC. There are few additional apps I have running on Mac, that I need running all the time, on something that's more electric bill friendly.

@scottalanmiller said:

@marcinozga said:

I'm going to throw a few Linux VMs on it, that's basically all it's going to run. So considering all my requirements, is Esxi with Vmware Fusion my only option?

I can't think of any scenario where Fusion would be an only option. That's a Type 2 hypervisor.

Fusion to manage Esxi, not to use it as hypervisor. That's the only option on OS X, and with 40% discount (I own Parallels license - VMware has deals for "converts") it would cost me $120.

@scottalanmiller said:

@marcinozga said:

• free backups - Unitrends have free option for Esxi and Hyper-V, anyone knows if it works on Xen or KVM?

Unitrends and Veeam free only work on HyperV for free and only on ESXi when ESXi is expensive. Xen can take its own backups.

Veeam is windows only (installation) so no go. Unitrends does agent based backups on free Esxi.

There's a way to fit 32GB RAM into these boxes, but the memory cost more that the NUC box

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2894509/want-32gb-of-ram-in-your-laptop-or-nuc-you-can-finally-do-it.html

http://www.amazon.com/IM-Intelligent-Memory-SODIMM-IMM2G72D3LSOD8AG-B15E/dp/B00UM9ULBW

Yes, this exact model:
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc5i5ryh.html

I just bought one of Intel NUC. I'm looking at different hypervisor options on that box. Here's what I require:

• management from OS X - other systems are not an option, I only have iMac, and I don't plan to buy/virtualize/bootcamp any other system

• Adtran vwlan must run on it - I know it runs on Esxi, and I currently have it on Virtualbox, someone got it to work on KVM too, does anybody have any experience with it on other hypervisors?

• free backups - Unitrends have free option for Esxi and Hyper-V, anyone knows if it works on Xen or KVM?

I'm going to throw a few Linux VMs on it, that's basically all it's going to run. So considering all my requirements, is Esxi with Vmware Fusion my only option?

@johnhooks said:

I don't need backups, I haven't had a drive fail on me yet.

I don't need backups, I have RAID (or better RAID5)!! - ftfy.

I have witnessed installation of such cable first hand many times. It happened a lot in the past, before 1Gbit became affordable, and customer wouldn't want to run another cable. My co-worker used to love these kind of "hacks", and it worked without any issues at 100Mbit. He even did poor man's POE over similar setup - power plugs/jack on both ends of the cable.

Sitting @ Metlife stadium waiting for AC/DC.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Cc771672.aspx

Just follow the instructions. As an alternative, you could install Cygwin. It won't allow you to install Linux packages directly, but it comes with a lot of GNU tools to give you similar functionality as in Linux distros.

Finally.

@scottalanmiller said:

We moved first to Spain, then down to Panama. Nicaragua is next!

So back and forth, that's some travelling!

@coliver said:

@marcinozga said:

Hello everyone,
I wandered here from Spiceworks. I'm from mid Hudson Valley (Poughkeepsie, NY).

Welcome, I've got family who lives there!

Nice. Drop me a line when you visit them, perhaps we could get together and have a few beers

@scottalanmiller said:

@marcinozga said:

@scottalanmiller

Yes we did, I remember

Sorry that I had to disappear on you there The whole "moving out of the country" thing had me preoccupied.

No problem. I was moving across the big pond once, so I know how tough it could be.

@scottalanmiller

Yes we did, I remember

Hello everyone,
I wandered here from Spiceworks. I'm from mid Hudson Valley (Poughkeepsie, NY).