8 Home Lab Services I Would Run on Bare Metal Instead of Virtualizing
Virtualizing things is one of the coolest ways to run workloads both in production or in the home lab. I know most of the time, I don’t think about virtualization…
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.
7 Things I Never Store on My Proxmox Boot Drive
One of the mistakes to avoid when you spin up a new Proxmox VE Server is one that is easy and common. You might install Proxmox VE Server on a…
I Stopped Running All My Docker Containers 24/7 and Do This Instead
For the most part for years now if I run a Docker container that houses an app, my workflow has been pretty simple. I deploy it using Docker Compose, and…
8 ARM64 Home Lab Mistakes I’d Avoid in 2026
I think ARM64 has become super interesting for home labs in 2026. Everyone it seems is looking for ways to cut down on the cost of electricity spend in the…
I Built a Server That Catches Every Change on My Home Lab Network
I have covered a lot of different angles on home lab backups. For the most part though, these are around the hypervisor, virtual machines on a Proxmox server, and persistent…
7 Things I’d Install First on a Brand-New Proxmox Server This Weekend
A fresh installation of Proxmox is very complete out of the box and you definitely won’t have any problems with your server just sticking with the default installation. However, there…
8 Home Lab Things I Stopped Doing the Old Way
It is amazing to me just how much things have changed just in the last couple of years. Not even more than that. We have seen a major hypervisor basically…
Still Running Proxmox VE 8? Here’s What You Need to Do Before End of Life
Well, if you have received a message in your Proxmox VE Server version 8 webUI telling you that Proxmox VE 8 is no longer supported, you are not the only…
9 OPNsense Settings I Change for Every Home Lab Firewall
When it comes to free and open source firewalls in the home lab, there are a few choices, but many home labbers tend to settle on OPNsense for its wide…
I Got Proxmox VE 9 Working on Raspberry Pi 5 With NVMe Boot and the Onboard NIC
If you have been following my blog lately, I recently installed the announced Proxmox AR64 build on my Raspberry Pi 5 8GB in the home lab. However, with that setup,…
