I'm really enjoying my Lenovo m920q TMM system as a Proxmox/firewall host at the edge of my network.
It's about the size of an Intel NUC, can take 64G or ram, and has a PCIe slot, as well as an on board 1G port that has intel vPro so it has ghetto ipmi.
And it even does SR-IOV if you want to do hardware passthrough.
Lenovo M920q - $300
PCie bracket - $25
Mellanox ConnectX-3 10/40/56G dual port , or Intel 82599 10G dual port nic - $40
Total = $365 give or take
Super easy to setup as you just need to install Proxmox, configure a vm firewall like OPNsense, Palo Alto, etc. and give it 2 vcpu's and 4-6G of memory.
I can easily max out my 2G fiber connection
It's about the size of an Intel NUC, can take 64G or ram, and has a PCIe slot, as well as an on board 1G port that has intel vPro so it has ghetto ipmi.
And it even does SR-IOV if you want to do hardware passthrough.
Lenovo M920q - $300
PCie bracket - $25
Mellanox ConnectX-3 10/40/56G dual port , or Intel 82599 10G dual port nic - $40
Total = $365 give or take
Super easy to setup as you just need to install Proxmox, configure a vm firewall like OPNsense, Palo Alto, etc. and give it 2 vcpu's and 4-6G of memory.
I can easily max out my 2G fiber connection