I definitely get it, and the larger home lab is certainly not for most folks.  I just have testing needs for certain levels of scale that laptops and desktops cannot...

I consider myself an anomaly here with the home lab, but I've been using refurbished server-grade equipment as testbeds for various things. I do have a large portion of my...

Nope you didn't miss it. It's a VMware specific option that I have started checking recently. I think in the long term it keeps the VMs more up-to-date with BIOS...

Those discussions are not necessarily unique to VMs. You can only add up to four vSCSI controllers per VM on both VMware and Hyper-V, and the only way to go...

In some cases, this can work well. However, in others, where the host is pushed for CPU scheduling, or the workload is more NUMA aware and absolutely thrashing memory, configuring...