Adventures in virtualisation

I had this crazy idea to set up a home server - not that I really need one. My end goal would be to maintain multiple virtual machines each with their own individual responsibilities running on a hypervisor such as ESXi. I thought it might be beneficial to start a blog so I could keep track of what I've learned along the way and perhaps inspire someone else to follow the same path. You might be questioning my reasoning behind such a project in a home environment.. After reading about setting up a multi-headed ESXi server my inner-geek couldn't relax thinking of all the possibilities this could be used for. That, and it's just a very cool thing to do.

Source: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multi-headed-VMWare-Gaming-Setup-564/

Seriously how cool does that look!? Four independent machines, each running an instance of Battlefield, running off the one physical server. Now realistically I don't have a need for this kind of setup but perhaps on a small scale this might be useful. Imagine being able to deploy a new computer at the touch of a button to any room in the house. On top of that you have the advantage of keeping everything segregated which is not only beneficial from an organisational point of view, but I imagine it helps to improve security as well.

Maybe I have deluded myself into thinking this would be useful.. We'll see..