Yeah, I don't understand the thinking behind this product when you can buy a recently decommissioned Dell, HP or SuperMicro server with a pile of memory and a couple of fast Xeons in it, load up your Linux of choice and go to town with QEMU. This beast here has two ethernet ports as well, so one is dedicated to the I/O for the QEMU VMs and they appear on the local network as actual machines via a bridge. Stick an old ATI HD6750 in it and run two QHD monitors. You may need some mechanism to make it a bit quieter but on the whole it's cheap, awesome and easy to keep running. Got a Big Sur VM, a Windows 2019 server, Windows 10 and a Solaris VM just for giggles because I like to watch the old screen savers sometimes. Remote access: no problem. Power consumption: err...
Best of all, HP have integrated lights out on their enterprise gear, so if you need to reboot it remotely, you can!
Whenever I ran the numbers, decommissioned servers were hard to justify. They are cheap to buy, but you pay that back quickly in electricity. And if you want something that's not incredibly noisy you pay a decent premium for that.
Best of all, HP have integrated lights out on their enterprise gear, so if you need to reboot it remotely, you can!