What to replace Microserver with?

Question

System administration

As a test lab with a zoo of virtual machines, I use Microserver Gen8 (Celeron / 4Gb). It all started with the fact that it was bought for typical home tasks - transmission, Plex, backups, Samba. But appetites have grown and now there is a lack of processor performance and RAM. Using it as a NAS is far from being in the forefront of tasks. First of all, of course, the idea is to upgrade the processor to a compatible Xeon and add RAM to the maximum possible 16gb, but 1) 16Gb does not inspire 2) the upgrade will turn out to be not very budgetary. Then it's easier to sell Gen8 as is, add "upgrade" finances, some more, and take a more mature server. The new Microserver Gen10 causes nothing but gloom. And here it is also necessary to take into account the fact that the use of a home and rack server with aircraft noise is clearly not suitable, although there are inexpensive used options. As far as I understand, the ML series is the quietest from HP, but the younger ML do not even have iLO, only a certain analogue - AMT, after reading about which I came to the conclusion that this is a compromise. In general, the requirements are:
- The price tag is within reason
- The ability to install more than 16Gb RAM (even if not immediately)
- Quiet as possible
- The possibility of full remote control - iLO or equivalent
- Mandatory support for LFF SATA
Are there such options? Used is not excluded, but it is not clear that old CPUs with virtualization support.

Answer 1

I hope they will not consider it as advertising :)
Recently, I suffered for a long time with a similar task - the "server" of the "On my knees Ltd." assembly is also rubbing at home. Over time, a lot of things hung on it, and one day I thought - right, buy a normal full-fledged server. What can I say:
- there are a lot of offices selling used servers
- almost every one has an online configurator
- desktop cases - very few and the cost will not be quite budgetary
Since the rack format did not limit me, I dug for a while and eventually stopped on ASUS RS500E6 . A platform with two E5620 xeons, 24G RAM (up to 96 in total), IPMI in a single-unit case with four screw slots cost 31 sput. Took here
UPD: not that it is completely silent, but quiet enough, its six coolers emit an airplane howl only at startup, when they start up and there is an option to control coolers in the BIOS. Of
course, everything depends on the budget. I wanted to meet the requirement "price-effectiveness". IMHO, we succeeded :)
In general, finding a server in a desktop case is not that unrealistic, but quite difficult and noticeably more expensive - well, of course, for entry-level servers, where prices are over a hundred - it's all the same :)

Answer 2

But who knows your budget and other requirements?
Take a regular desktop, with a fresh Intel board - there is usually support for up to 64 or 128GB of memory on board.
To have remote control - take it with AMT support.
Although why it gave up in the home server I can’t imagine.
Regarding noise - desktops are usually less noisy, because the case is more spacious. Yes, and there is a rich choice of coolers