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home lab
Do You Really Need a Full-Sized Rack for Your Home Lab in 2025?
In 2025, home labs are more powerful and smaller than ever, thanks to mini PCs. Mini PCs with AMD Ryzen or Intel Core Ultra processors now have up to 32 threads or more and can…
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VMware
Enhanced vMotion Compatibility VM Migration in VMware Environments
VMware has one of the coolest technologies in something called Enhanced vMotion Compatibility. It helps ensure that you can migrate…
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Mini PC & Server
Does the Minisforum MS-01 support bifurcation with the PCI-e slot?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it does in the BIOS. There is no option to set bifurcation on the slot.…
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Networking
pfSense Virtual Machine as a Network Firewall
The pfSense network firewall solution is a great free and open-source firewall that many run in their home labs or…
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Raspberry Pi
Top 20 Best OS for Raspberry Pi in 2024
Let’s look at choosing the best OS for Raspberry Pi as many options are available to download outside of the…
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Proxmox
Install Proxmox in VMware Workstation Pro
With the recent news about VMware Workstation Pro being free for personal use, it opens up a lot of doors…
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Mini PC & Server
Minisforum NAB6 Mini PC as a Home Lab Server
Recently, I received a sample unit of the Minisforum NAB6 mini PC from Minisforum. This is a very capable mini…
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VMware
VMware Monitoring for Free with Telegraf InfluxDB and Grafana
There are a lot of expensive VMware vSphere monitoring tools out there from enterprise vendors that work really well and…
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Monitoring
TICK Stack with Docker Compose Example
In thinking through my monitoring needs and a few projects I have coming up in mind, I wanted to spin…
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Mini PC & Server
Run VMware Workstation Pro on a Mini PC: Top Tips and Tweaks
With the recent development of VMware by Broadcom announcing VMware Workstation is now free for personal use, I think this…
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Linux
Cockpit Ubuntu Install Configuration and Apps
Working with the oVirt Node install recently re-familiarized me with the Cockpit utility and made me want to play around…
