Hi there!

I have a single application that needs to run on in a hypervisor'd environment.

I am dangerously familiar with ESXI, and have messed around with Hyper-V at home / spinning up sandboxes.

With the changes to ESXI, I think I'd like to go with Hyper-V.

What would I be giving up if I went with a heavy-duty workstation (Xeon, dual redundant PS, etc) rather than traditional server hardware? Win 11 for WS seems like it will do the things I need pretty well. I am not convinced that I need Windows Server for a single VM environment. This system is a nice-to-have, not fully mission critical (so being down for awhile while things get rebuilt is not the end of the world).

Am I setting myself up for failure / explosions / a rift in the time-space continuum if I continue down this path?