Are Home Labs Dead in 2026? The Comment That Forced Me to Rethink Everything
I recently had a comment on a blog post that stopped me in my tracks. It was a comment from a reader that made me stop and think about the…
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.
Monitor Your Proxmox Home Lab Like a Boss: The Monitoring Stack I Actually Use
Monitoring your home lab environment running Proxmox is something that all of us should do. Monitoring is not the most thrilling aspect of any home lab, but it is extremely…
I Tried LACP in My Proxmox Home Lab and Here’s What Actually Happened
Since I have been playing around a LOT lately with Proxmox and software-defined storage, there was another configuration that I wanted to test in my Proxmox environment. That was LACP…
I Built a Ceph Erasure-Coded NVMe Cluster in My Home Lab. Here’s What Actually Happened
I have been super geeking out on my home lab this week going all in on some nerd knobs of Proxmox clustering and Ceph storage between my cluster hosts. I…
Proxmox Tips I Wish I Knew Before Building My First Home Lab
We have all been there with technologies that we are learning for the first time. We don’t know what we don’t know. When I first started building my home lab…
The Smallest Home Lab That Still Feels Like a Real Datacenter
There is no question that my home lab has been shrinking, not in terms of processing and other power, but in terms of physical footprint this year. I have been…
I Ran Proxmox Datacenter Manager for a Month: What It’s Actually Good At
Well, as we all know, the GA release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager dropped around the first of December last year. This has been a great addition to the Proxmox ecosystem.…
I Don’t Miss vCenter After Moving My Home Lab to Proxmox (Here’s Why)
Most have been following my journey of testing and making changes in the home lab. Recently I have been spinning up a minilab running on Proxmox. For years, I have…
Why Ceph Won for Persistent Storage in My Talos Linux Kubernetes MiniLab
If you are deciding to run a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, Talos Linux Kubernetes makes a lot of sense, since it focuses on being immutable and security-focused. However, it forces you…
9 Home Lab Signals That Tell You You’re Building the Right Way
Sometimes, you wonder to yourself if you are a self-hoster, am I doing this right? What can I do to make my setup better? When you first start out, progress…