I Built a Local AI Coding Agent Home Lab Setup With OpenCode and Ollama
One of the interesting trends that is happening across all industries is the rise of AI and AI-integrated tooling. I think most of us have experimented with running local LLMs…
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.
This Lightweight Proxmox Tool Makes CLI Management Faster
One of the things I have noticed recently in the Proxmox ecosystem is that many tools are becoming much larger and more complex. That is not necessarily a bad thing.…
The Storage Mistakes That Quietly Hurt Your Proxmox Performance
One of the things I have learned after running Proxmox clusters full time in the home lab is that storage problems can be more difficult to spot than something like…
5 Proxmox Optimizations Worth Doing This Weekend
If you are anything like me, your Proxmox environment probably started simple and then slowly evolved over time. Maybe it began with a single node running a few VMs. Then…
Why Proxmox Wasn’t Reclaiming Storage Until I Fixed This Setting
Maybe you have been in this situation where you know you are deleting data inside your virtual machines running in Proxmox. You see the disk usage drop inside the guest…
Proxmox Networking Mistakes That Quietly Break Your Home Lab
On the surface of things, I really like Proxmox networking. It is straightforward and based around Linux bridges which are powerful in their own right. You get the default Linux…
I Tried This New Open Source Kubernetes Dashboard and It’s Surprisingly Good
I have been through a lot of the Kubernetes dashboards in my home lab and now that I am running my home lab “production” workloads on Kubernetes, I am keenly…
PatchMon V2 Finally Lets You Patch Your Servers From One Dashboard
I first wrote about Patchmon in its v1 form back at the end of 2025. It immediately stood out to me as something that filled a real gap in the…
VM Migration in Proxmox Kept Breaking Until I Fixed This CPU Setting
When you are taking advantage of a Proxmox cluster with Live Migration, there is a chance that you have seen instances of when you are trying to migrate a VM…
I Tried New Proxmox Tools in May 2026 and Only a Few Made the Cut
If you have been running Proxmox in your home lab for any amount of time, you already know the ecosystem has been growing fast and rightly so. There are more…