Proxmox Datacenter Manager 1.1 Quietly Added Its Best Feature Yet
Anyone running Proxmox in their home lab right now or wanting to go with it in production is no doubt monitoring the Proxmox Datacenter Manager solution from Proxmox. This is…
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 thought my Technitium DNS cluster was fixed. These settings were the real problem
When you run a home lab long enough, you eventually hit one of those troubleshooting sessions that turns into a full-on detective story. You start out convinced the issue is…
I Tried Termius for My Home Lab and Replaced My SSH Client
I am always on the lookout for the next tool that makes sense for me to use in my home lab environment or that brings new features or capabilities to…
Docker on Windows Server Finally Felt Easier After I Tried VisualDock Server
Running containers on Linux feels pretty normal and I have a LOT of it running in my home lab, especially for my Docker container hosts. However, Windows Server or workstation…
The Home Lab Alerts I Refuse to Live Without
I have shared quite a bit of content on the tools I use in my current monitoring stack. However, I haven’t really shared the details of what I actually “alert”…
Before I Deploy Anything to My Home Lab, I Make These 8 Decisions
When you start spending enough time self-hosting applications in your home lab, you stop “just deploying” stuff because they look cool. We all still do some of that, no matter…
Proxmox VE 9.2 Is Here: 7 New Features That Actually Matter
It seems like Proxmox has been moving fast lately with lots of new functionality, improvements, bug fixes, etc. Each release seems to bring great new features along. Proxmox VE 9.2…
Why I Run Some Things in Docker, Some in VMs, and Some in Kubernetes
I have been very transparent about the fact that I still have Docker hosts in my home lab in addition to running Kubernetes. If you haven’t seen my post on…
The Proxmox VM Disk Settings I Change on Every New VM
When I first started running Proxmox seriously in the home lab, I mostly accepted the default virtual machine disk settings. If a VM booted successfully and performance felt “good enough,”…
Don’t Ignore This Proxmox Warning Before June 2026
Recently while migrating a Windows VM in my home lab running Proxmox VE, I noticed a warning message that honestly caught me off guard. At first glance, it looked like…