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.…
Category: Proxmox
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…
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…
Proxmox Backup Server 4.2 Just Changed How I Do Offsite Backups
Backups are arguably one of THE most important aspects of running any type of virtualization stack. If you are running a small home lab or production environment, likely you don’t…
Is Proxmox SDN Worth It for a Home Lab?
Out of all the really great features that Proxmox offers for home labbers and production environments, one of the most underutilized features is Proxmox SDN. You have probably seen the…
I Tried Tainer for Proxmox and It Feels Like Portainer for VMs
I am constantly surprised by the number of new tools that are getting cranked out for Proxmox. It is hard to keep up sometimes with the growth and expansion of…