TrueNAS 27 RC1 Is Here: 5 Changes That Matter for Home Labs
I have been spending quite a bit of time with TrueNAS in my home lab lately, especially with the new Proxmox storage plugin. You can read about my adventures with…
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 Hermes Agent Skills I’d Add to My Home Lab First
After I first setup my Hermes Agent in the home lab I started looking at some of the enhancements that can be made to the effectiveness of the Hermes agent.…
6 Home Lab Projects to Try This Weekend: October 9, 2026
Man I am super excited about things tried in the home lab network this week. Lots of cool projects that took me into some uncharted territory for myself and trying…
I Gave an AI Agent Its Own VLAN in My Home Lab. Here’s Why
If you are like me, AI agents are starting to get much more interesting to me than just running another chatbot in the home lab. We are well past that…
I Tried This Home Lab App Store and It Made Podman Much Easier
I have been flirting around with Podman in my home lab and have been testing it more than in the past as of recently. You may have seen my recent…
I Tried Warpgate to Secure Access to My Home Lab. Here’s What I Found
If you have been looking at setting up a Bastion host or secure jump box for accessing your home lab services, there are always challenges with this and things to…
This Proxmox Restore Portal Helps You Find the File You Actually Need
There are really two kinds of restores when it comes to your backups. You can restore an entire VM when needed which is the scenario that we tend to think…
7 ZFS Things I Wish I’d Known Before Using It on Proxmox
If there is one thing about Proxmox storage to note, it is that it fully embraces ZFS storage. ZFS is a native storage type in Proxmox and it has a…
Microsoft Just Gave WSL Its Own Container Engine. Do You Still Need Docker Desktop?
I have been on a containerization journey in my home lab for a number of years now and have been using Docker to run containerized workloads in the home lab…
6 Home Lab Projects to Try This Weekend: October 2, 2026
This week has been a blur of different projects and things I have tried out and tested in the home lab. But from it, has come a lot of really…
