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…
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.
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…
I Tested Cosmos Server: Is This the Best Home Server OS Yet?
There are many great home server operating systems out there like TrueNAS, Unraid, Yunohost, CasaOS, Cloudron, and others. All of these are great in their own right. However, there is…
The Top DevOps Skills in 2026 You Can Learn in a Home Lab
Man DevOps has certainly gotten exciting for me personally. There are just so many cool things that we can do in the home lab now with very cool solutions and…
Inside My Mini Rack Proxmox and Kubernetes Home Lab for 2026
Going into home lab testing and learning for 2026, I wanted to continue building on a project I started with my mini 10 inch rack while also making better use…