It has been nothing but great using this machine. Good efficient all purpose hypervisor host for home. For NIC’s you have to create own image with VMware Flings. Maybe I will dedicate one post on this.

Some specs to show off:

NUC11TNHv5

Manufacturer Intel(R) Client Systems

Model NUC11TNHv5

CPU Logical processors 8

Processor type 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1145G7 @ 2.60GHz

Sockets 1

Cores per socket 4

Hyperthreading Yes, enabled

Memory 31.63 GB

Virtual flash

Capacity 119.75 GB

Used 3.09 GB

Free 116.66 GB

TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] good for hardware encoding with passthrough

2x Ethernet Controller I225-LM (2,5GbE) can be used as router with dedicated NICs.

Image profile ESXi-7.0U3d-19482537

BIOS version

TNTGLV57.0064.2022.0217.1533

BIOS release date

Thursday, February 17, 2022, 01:00:00 +0100

Been running it 24/7 for months now without issues of any kind.