I was looking for mini PCs with SFP+ and found a lot of fairly expensive small servers that were tempting. Then I got lucky and saw a new product coming out from minisforum, the MS-01, which had everything I needed at a much lower pricepoint.
I went with the 20 core intel i9-13900H but I think any of the three would have been fine for my needs.
| # should works on any cloud-init enabled hypervisor (openstack.. ) | |
| # start from a normal ubuntu 20.04 install as minimal was not available for ARM64 | |
| # Since ARM64 machines has higher RAM, Shrinking is desired but not necessary. Instead we will increase tmpfs to 1700MB | |
| # Getting root (if sudo -i doesn't work then set a root password beforehand using 'sudo passwd root' | |
| sudo -i | |
| # make sure we are on the highest kernel, so we can delete all the others ... |