What is the best configuration for a multi-user workstation hypervisor?

Question

Iron

Good afternoon!

I want to organize an infrastructure on virtual machines, which contains:
- a remote workplace for 5 developers with VS 2022 (multi-user workstation) (~20GB RAM per user)
- a Windows 2019 domain controller
- a productive server (Windows 2019, IIS, MSSQL Server 2019)
- repository (Ubuntu, Gitlab)

I want to use the ESXi hypervisor, but it only supports Xeon processors from the Intel line. What makes the server more expensive.
Another option is to use Hyper-V. I use it now, but I constantly encounter the problem of IP address conflicts due to the fact that for some reason dhcp receives requests from the virtual machine from the mac of the host machine. dhcp sees the virtual machine under the host machine's poppy. For many months I have been looking for a solution on the Internet, but from time to time such glitches appear for everyone, as I understand it.
I want to get away from hyper-v for this reason, so as not to suffer anymore with this problem. But hyper-v supports core i9 processors, which is cheaper than xeon with the same performance.

Now I'm considering 2 configurations: on xeon (for esx), and on core i9 (for hyper-v)

What configuration can you recommend for my purposes?

Answer 1

look at ProxMox, completely free, with a web interface, allows you to make backups, works on both server and gaming hardware, installed on your work laptop and forwarded the VC to the VM ... Under the hood of Debian Linux + KVM, what will definitely faster than Hyper-V.
https://www.proxmox.com/en/
https://pingvinus.ru/gallery/4067

This open source virtualization platform, built on the basis of Debian, KVM, LXC, Ceph, has long established itself. The authors, by the way, talk about more than half a million hosts where it is deployed.

https://habr.com/ru/post/589901/

Answer 2

I want to use the ESXi hypervisor, but it only supports Xeon processors from the Intel line

My hyper and my pros (Intel G850, which is never a xeon) obviously didn't know this, because when I put the first one on the second one, they took it and ... they started working :) There was a small dance with fitting an unsupported network card - yes.
Memory in this configuration needs at least 128G - is there that much?
The license will take so much money that one more server could be bought.
And I didn’t see anything where the word backup would be ... but in vain, here recently the encryptor devoured a chela, he asked how I would restore ... they advised me to pay - this is the only way :)