This Made My Mini PC Home Lab Feel Enterprise Grade: Intel vPro with AMT
One of the things that I really missed about going away from enterprise grade servers is the out of band management they have by default. Dell has iDRAC, Supermicro has…
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.
5 Proxmox Maintenance Tasks Most Home Labs Ignore
Proxmox is my choice of home lab hypervisor moving forward. It has so many capabilities and features. It can definitely support a healthy list of project based learning and experimenting…
5 Unexpected Ways to Save Power in Your Home Lab (Without Killing Performance)
Over the last few years my home lab has diminished in the footprint of the servers I have used to run my home lab workloads. For several years, I ran…
How I Patch My Proxmox Cluster Without Taking Anything Offline
As many are shifting to Proxmox for both home lab and even production workloads and operations, there are several “day-to-day” operational activities that you probably want to know how to…
Jumbo Frames Broke My Proxmox Cluster and Here’s Why
If you have ever setup a production virtualization environment, including, VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and others, when it comes to networking and storage efficiency, jumbo frames always come into the conversation.…
Is This the vCenter Experience Proxmox Has Been Missing? Meet ProxCenter
One of the thing that a LOT of VMware vSphere admins feel like they are missing is the vCenter-like experience when they move over to Proxmox. This is where they…
I Built a 5-Node Proxmox and Ceph Home Lab with 17TB and Dual 10Gb LACP
Over the last few weeks I have been deeply involved in a Proxmox home lab project that is designed to reshape my home lab as I know it as I…
How I Made a Single Docker Host Highly Available Using Proxmox in My Home Lab
Many in their home lab environments are running single Docker hosts for their Docker workloads and this is just fine when it comes to simplicity and ease of getting services…
I’m Documenting My Entire Home Lab as Code with RackPeek
As you know if you have read my blog posts over the course of the past several months, I have been writing a lot about home lab documentation. Keeping things…
5 Proxmox Management Tools I Use in My Home Lab in 2026
If you are running Proxmox in your home lab in 2026, you already know something. The hypervisor is one of the best out there and arguably I think it is…