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…
Category: Proxmox
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…
Proxmox 9.1.8 Finally Rebalances HA Workloads Automatically
For those migrating to Proxmox from “another hypervisor”, there are always the discussions around what features may be missing or work different from what they are coming from. If you…
I Thought ZFS Was Required for Proxmox Replication in My Home Lab but I Was Wrong
When it comes to Proxmox replication in the home lab or production for that matter, if you want to have replication you needed ZFS. That was just how the solution…
I’m Now Running Ceph and iSCSI in My Proxmox Home Lab. Here’s Why
So at the first of the year when I built out my new Proxmox mini lab, I went all in on Ceph. Like most of us, I wanted to have…
I Almost Gave Up on Proxmox iSCSI Storage in My Home Lab Then This Worked
Many organizations are looking at moving from VMware over to a different hypervisor. For many, they have settled on Proxmox as their target. However, if you have been running with…
10 Ceph Commands I Use in My Proxmox Home Lab
I have been running Ceph in my Proxmox powered home lab now since the beginning of this year and it is an amazing storage solution. It provides the backend storage…
Proxmox Finally Has a Real RVTools-Style Report (This Is What Was Missing)
If you seem to remember that I wrote about a similar topic, you are correct! I had previously written about a particular tool in the cv4pve toolkit that reminded me…