I Tried This Storage OS Most Home Labbers Have Never Heard Of
When it comes to storage specific operating systems that are popular in the home lab, most of the time names like TrueNAS are the ones that come to the top…
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.
I Still Use Wireshark, but This Is the Network Tool I Open First
Whenever you are troubleshooting network issues at a very deep level or trying to troubleshoot advanced or complex issues in the environment, you will always see mention of a packet…
I No Longer Follow This Popular Home Lab Advice
Needless to say like EVERYTHING else out there, home labbing has a lot of advice that you can follow across various message boards, videos, and blogs like this one 🙂…
I Tried MicroCloud and It Might Be Canonical’s Most Interesting Home Lab Project Yet
I am always looking at solutions that can be considered as serious platforms for not only self-hosted solutions but also for production environments. In looking at what is out there,…
This Home Lab Learning Tool Made Kubernetes Finally Click for Me
I have been looking for self-hosted tools for learning outside of actual lab environments that I have built in my home lab for Kubernetes. Hands on labs with Kubernetes are…
I Finally Found a Docker Backup Tool That Fits a Home Lab
There are all kinds of backup solutions out there that do some really amazing things. However, when it comes to Docker, the options start to shrink down. So, when I…
I Found a Proxmox Mod That Adds Features I Wish Were Built In
Every now and then, I run across a home lab project that has features that I wish were built into the default Proxmox interface. And, you can tell these tools…
I Tried Proxmox Automated Installs and Am Never Going Back
I absolutely think the “star of the show” with the new Proxmox Datacenter 1.1 release is the new automated installation feature that will allow you to create answer files for…
I Tried WolfStack and It Might Be the Simplest Way to Run a Home Lab
I am always looking at what I think might be the simplest way for ones to get into running a home lab. There are definitely simple ways to do it.…
What Worked Great Until My Home Lab Got Bigger (And Why I Moved On)
Like everything else in a home lab, change is inevitable. There are certain tools that served me well at a certain point or size of my home lab that I…