Hypervisors for running gateways and SMS

[StevePearson]

Upto now I've always used VMware as my hypervisor of choice for building gateways and management servers in my lab, however with the current direction that Broadcom are taking VMware I think it's time for a change. My initial thought was Proxmox, and I see on here people are using this without issue, but I was wondering if anyone has ever tried installing gateways and SMS on Unraid as the hypervisor?

[the_rock · Accepted solution]

I personally always use eve-ng, its the BEST...just my opinion. But, to answer your question, I know customer that did use Unraid and they said was fine, no issues,

[PhoneBoy]

Promox, Unraid, and even @the_rock's favorite EVE-NG all use KVM under the hood.
Which means it should work.

[the_rock]

Anyone I showed eve-ng to LOVED it, just saying.

[StevePearson]

Thanks Andy, never come across this but looks pretty impressive, so that's my weekend sorted, plying with a new toy!

[the_rock]

Im telling you, its GREAT!

[the_rock]

Personally, even if yearly license was 1000$, I would still argue its worth it, and its about 300, so thats worth it every penny, in my humble opinion 🙂

[Bob_Zimmerman]

Hyper-V also definitely works. Some older CloudGuard images seem to think any Hyper-V host is Azure, but installing from ISO always works, and newer CloudGuard images work.

I haven't had time to try FreeBSD/illumos' bhyve or OpenBSD's vmd(8). The former is very likely to work. I suspect the latter would take substantial effort.

VirtualBox works, but it's mediocre all around.