It’s on sale right now, I got mine yesterday at 392, it’s up to 449 right now.
HP Z840 AutoCAD Workstation 2X E5-2637 V3 8 Cores 16 Threads 3.5Ghz 128GB 250GB SSD 2TB Quadro K2200 Win 10 Pro (Renewed) https://a.co/d/0cwGttl)
128 GB OF RAM??? I just bought a beelink for 200 and I’m regretting it terribly after I bought this, if this thing performs how I think it will I’ll be able to literally run a shit ton of virtual machines and darker containers and anything I can think of basically my entire home lab on this one machine. Am I tripping? Is this not as good as I think it is?
ESXi is my go to hypervisor but I think proxmox is more popular here & /r/homelab.
Either way, yes 100% you should put a hypervisor on it.
If you are not going to do hardware RAID on the server then one small SSD for the OS I suggest then another high quality SSD (2.5 or Nvme via a PCIE adapter) for VM storage primary storage then a HDD if you want storage on the server also.
I often have a VM with 2 virtual disks assgined, one on the SSD and one on the HDD.
Why did you remove the text of the post hah?