Same NUC, got two of them with 64GB of memory each, a 250GB 970 Evo NVMe, and and a TB3 10GBaseT adapter. Absolutely wonderful experience! I run ESXi 7.
[0]https://github.com/Aquantia/AQtion-esxi
[1]https://www.sonnettech.com/product/solo10g-tb3/overview.html