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.…
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.
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…
I Thought Keepalived Only Protected My Home Lab Servers. Then I Found Track Scripts
I have used Keepalived in my home lab for quite some time and most of the time, I have thought of it in a very simple way as to what…
Proxmox Just Removed One of Its Biggest Weaknesses
For many who have been evaluating the market to settle on their hypervisor of choice for the enterprise moving forward since the Broadcom VMware meltdown, there have been several vendors…
7 Proxmox Decisions That Are Painful to Change Later
This has always been one that has bitten me both in the home lab and in production. The moment that you think this is only a lab or this is…
I Tried Forgejo in My Home Lab. It Might Be the Easiest Self-Hosted Git Server Yet
I am always looking for new and better solutions and ways of doing things in the home lab, and also solutions that can help others start their journey of self-hosted…
I Connected AI to My Home Lab. Then I Realized What It Could Access
When you start experimenting full time with AI and AI tooling, you will find that you will start to get into to connecting MCP servers to your AI agents. Model…
I Tried Omarchy Linux as My Home Lab Workstation This Weekend. Here’s What Happened.
I tend to spend a ridiculous amount of time in the home lab and working with various operating systems. There are so many great OS’s that I love working with…
