Editing Requirements Gathering (section)

== Common Homelab Workloads and Software ==
Some of the most common workloads to run within a homelab, are the infrastructure workloads of the homelab itself! For example, most of us have probably at some point or other in the past, invested in a homelab in order to allow them to learn how to install, configure and manage VMware vSphere.

Many people also choose to share their homelab resources with other areas of their lives, not only running dev servers of enterprise software and services for study. For example other people are running everything from their own WordPress blog on a LAMP stack, to PLEX servers and even home CCTV!

Here are a few common workloads and test solutions people run on their homelabs - think about which of these and other workloads you might like to run, as some of them are very lightweight, and others may require significant infrastructure if you want to run them!

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! VMware !! Microsoft !! Linux !! Citrix !! Containers !! Other
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* [[VMware vSphere|vSphere]] (native or nested [[vInception]] / [[vTARDIS]])
* [[VMware vRealize Operations|vRealize Operations]]
* [[VMware vRealize Automation|vRealize Automation]]
* [[VMware vRealize Orchestrator|vRealize Orchestrator]]
* [[VMware vRealize LogInsight|vRealize LogInsight]]
* [[VMware NSX|NSX]]
* [[VMware VSAN|VSAN]]
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* Hyper-V (native or nested)
* [[Microsoft Windows|Windows VMs]]
* [[Active Directory]]
* SCOM
* WDS & WSUS
* [[Microsoft SQL|SQL / SQL Express]]
* [[Microsoft Exchange|Exchange]]
* IIS
* RDS
* AzureStack ''(New)''
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* Linux VMs
* Apache web server
* MySQL
* LAMP stack
* ELK stack
* Varnish
* HAProxy
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* XenApp
* XenDesktop
* XenServer
* NetScaler
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* [[Docker]]
* Rkt
* [[Kubernetes]]
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* OpenStack  
* Firewalls
* Load Balancers  
* Blogs, (e.g. Wordpress)
* Media servers (e.g. PLEX)  
* Photo sharing sites
* CCTV

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