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This is a good, if not opinionated, guide. And to be fair, r/homelab and its ilk are so full of options that it's easy to become overwhelmed.

Personally, I settled on Supermicro because they're modular, and don't care what brand of stuff you throw in them (HP is notorious for spinning fans to turbo if you put non-HP disks into them), although I may be picking up two Dells to complement the one I have for a Proxmox HA/Ceph cluster.

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I dont run server anything.

I have dell 7050's running a VMware/virtualization lab. They can have 64GB of ram and can handle anything i throw at them. Not iKVM though. But i just walk across the room and hook up a monitor the one or two times a year i need to.

Honestly Synology has been the best godsend. I was a SAN admin in a previous life. I have run freenas, openfiler, openfiler in HA, linux+NFS+iSCSI etc over the years. Synology generally makes it simple and totally integrated and allows me to play with other things rather than getting storage working.

Dell 7050 may have vPro, which enables Intel AMT remote KVM access via Management Engine.

I love Dell. IDRAC is killer.

The HTML5 interface is definitely very nice. I haven't had a chance to use Supermicro's HTML5 IPMI, as I have an X9 board, and to my knowledge the minimum support for it is X10.

I have a little experience with both the old and new Supermicro stuff. The new x10 IPMI experience is a lot like the old x9 java app experience, except you don't have to dig out an ancient computer to make it work. (Which feels great by comparison!)

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