Best operating system for Servers in 2024
When it comes to certain features or capabilities running in home labs or production environments, it directly relates to the operating system. In this video, we take a look at the best operating system for servers in 2024. We will look at several categories of server operating systems, such as those that do virtualization, containers, file servers, and security.
Check out my written review of best server OS in 2024: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/02/best-server-os-in-2024-in-five-categories/
See how to setup a Nutanix home lab here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/01/nutanix-community-edition-for-home-lab/
New Proxmox migration wizard: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/03/proxmox-new-import-wizard-for-migrating-vmware-esxi-vms/
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Introduction – 0:00
Operating systems overview – 0:35
Introducing Best operating system for Virtualization – 0:54
VMware ESXi – 1:27
Nutanix AHV – 2:30
Proxmox VE – 3:30
XCP-ng – 3:55
Best operating system for running containers – 4:54
Talos Linux – 5:33
Flatcar Container Linux – 6:14
Fedora CoreOS – 6:30
Best operating system for running file servers – 6:42
Windows Server – 7:00
TrueNAS Scale – 7:56
Vanilla Ubuntu or Debian – 8:30
Best operating system for security – 9:03
Qubes OS – 9:28
Tails OS – 9:50
Kali Linux – 10:03
Wrapping up the Best operating system in 2024 – 10:13
windows server
Best server OS's by use case, . . . This is the best video for that 👍
Parot os is a nice alternative to kali
Great video as usual, but I can't get over the name Nutanix . It sounds like a dietary supplement, maybe for hair loss or Low T. 🤣
Any best suggest for GPU workload? I use ubuntu server and to be honest, too much struggle with nvidia driver and cuda and so on…
You can build the XCP-NG appliance from sources to get all of the features. Several write ups online and pretty easy to do. Lawrence Systems has several videos on it.
Where wasn't there any mention of AIX or OS/2???? sigh lol j/k
Hey dude, do you have any video of your homelab setup? If not please describe it.. I presume synology NAS and some ubiquiti
The perfect server OS doesn’t exist, it exists the best server OS for your applications! 😅
I've been wrapping my head around NIX OS, bit of a learning curve but the fact that it's so easy to reproduce once you do get everything set up is something I really like. I'm also partial to FreeBSD (or OpenBSD for security) over Linux when I can use it.
RHEL and Almalinux if you need enterprise hardware driver support, because Debian is anti-propriety drivers.
I think you might of missed OpenBSD in them most secure. Qubes, Tails, Kali etc are hardly operating systems for servers?
I'm sticking with BSD, but nice summery 🙂
These days I land on NixOS as a file server and for virtualization using Nix Flakes. The Nix language is kinda like learning VI. It has a learning curve but pays off once you figure it out.
Positivity is contagious. Spread it! 🌈
Hi Brandon. Great video
Yust a quick tip about xcp-ng if you run the xen-oa in the docker you get all features for free but are not able to get support from the team.
You're overlooking FreeBSD
"The video was informative, but I expected an information Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) as well, given its growing importance in server environments. Covering HCI alongside the server OSes would have provided a more comprehensive perspective."
I agree with any word you said.
I have to admit I have warmed up to proxmox. I am a VCP since version 7 so I know esxi very well. I will miss them but Broadcom ruins everything they buy. I have been trying to just get a quote for a client and can't get a vmware quote from distribution going on a couple of months now. The client wants vmware so I don't know what we are going to do.
Hi Brandon, can you kindly provide the learning path for Nutanix please.
I thought you might have included Hyper-V in the Hypervisor section since it is a part of all Windows Desktop and Server OSs.