The choice of a hypervisor under "circulation" OS?

Question

Virtualization

Good afternoon.

There is a task: to minimize the number of servers.

Now about 7 disparate servers do about the same thing, namely: Windows Server 2008/2012 and Debian 8 are installed. By and large, only one specific software gives a greater load, the data on the servers is 90% the same. There is an idea to minimize the number of servers by using a hypervisor (you can’t do without it - your own software instances should spin), but connect these 90% of _identical to this software [I apologize for the confusion]

As I imagine it:
- one server with a hypervisor
- several VM
- duplicate data *in some unknown way* attached to each VM read_only ( share folders is not suitable - software refuses to work over the network)
- software protection based on security keys (analogous to HASP): you need (preferably out of the box) port forwarding from the host to the VM

There are two questions:
1. Will Proxmox fit these tasks?
2. What to do with duplicate data?

Regards
, BiMouse

Answer 1

Vmware ESXi

Answer 2

1. Is Proxmox suitable for these tasks?

Suitable
SHD with deduplication and you don’t have to do anything.

Answer 3

there is not much data, so it's easier to forget about read-only garbage
which ports you are going to forward?

Answer 4

mureevms , there is no storage system :( you can deploy Synology. Suitable for these tasks? Duplication of about 2 TB of
Puma Thailand data , you need to forward USB ports