15 Best Proxmox Tools and Scripts That Make Your Home Lab Easier
Proxmox is definitely the de facto standard for open-source virtualization in the home lab. It is a crazy good virtualization platform that you can run for free, with clustering, and…
Author: Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
15 Docker Containers That Make Your Home Lab Instantly Better
There are certain docker containers that make a lot of sense to run in a home lab that just make life easier, better, and more efficient in the lab environment.…
Smokeping is the Simple Way to Monitor Pings in Your Home Lab
Network latency can absolutely kill your performance. If you have noticed y our virtual machines lagging, or your Docker containers struggling to pull images down. Or, if you have felt…
Meet ProxMenux Monitor: The New Way to Monitor Proxmox Servers
So I had to do a double take when I looked at the ProxMenuX repo and saw that with the latest release there is a new tool that is included…
10 Things You Should Back Up in Your Home Lab (But Probably Don’t)
There is definitely a checklist of things that I think are good to mention when it comes to backing up things in the home lab. We all know about “backups”…
5 Signs It’s Time to Upgrade Your Home Lab Hardware
One of the strengths I think to the home lab community is that we all try to squeeze as much as we can out of our gear. Many of us…
Why I Switched to Zabbix for Monitoring My Docker Containers
Monitoring your home lab infrastructure is one of the most important things you can stand up and learn about. Otherwise, yes, you can still have fun in a home lab…
See Everything on Your Home Lab Network with ntopng
If you are like me, I have always been interested in networking and the technologies that allow us to get packets from point A to point B. In the home…
Best Home Lab Tools You’re Crazy Not to Use in 2025
Let’s face it, we are always on the lookout for good tools that we can use in our home labs to do various things or just make our lives easier.…
5 Things You Should Be Monitoring on Your Home Lab Network (But Probably Aren’t)
You may have spent tons of time optimizing and monitoring the performance of virtual machines, containers, and other infrastructure in your home lab. However, network visibility often gets ignored in…