I Added Break-Glass Accounts Before My Home Lab Locked Me Out
One of the coolest things that you can do is centralize your authentication in the home lab. So, instead of having all kinds of separate usernames and passwords that are…
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 Don’t Trust a Home Lab Service Until It Passes These 7 Tests
When it comes to putting a new service into the home lab that is something I will feel like I can rely on and trust, it has to be able…
I Stopped Manually Updating My Docker Container Stacks. I Use This Instead
There are SO many tools out there that allow you to keep your containers updated and I have used just about all of them, including Watchtower, Dockcheck, and others. Running…
If I Had 2 Hours for My Home Lab This Weekend, I’d Do These 7 Things
Let’s face it, our time in the home lab among other things we have going on in our lives and families may be hard to come by and there are…
I Turned My Proxmox Server Into a NAS Without Installing TrueNAS
Proxmox is really good with all types of storage and I have used it as a dedicated NAS appliance many times. I have used dedicated NAS devices. I have also…
I Changed How I Do GPU Passthrough in Proxmox After Finding This Feature
Many home labbers are starting to experiment with AI in the home lab and are using things like GPU passthrough on their Proxmox hosts. But passthrough is not just something…
I Was Running Redundant VMs on the Same Proxmox Host Without Realizing It
If you have spent a lot of time over the years building redundancy into your home lab, you probably have looked at many of the same layers that I have.…
Leaving VMware Just Got Harder After Broadcom Pulled VDDK Downloads
Just when we thought that Broadcom wouldn’t be able to slow down customers moving off of vSphere to another platform. They may just now have done something that will have…
7 Weekend Projects That Make Your Home Lab Less Dependent on You
I have been pretty focused on automation in the home lab. But there is also mindset changes I needed to make to keep from having to baby sit my lab…
7 Simple Home Lab HA Projects for This Weekend
A lot of times we think about high availability being some complicated or complex thing that we just think in the home lab it isn’t worth doing. However, HA doesn’t…
