Raspberry Pi Wayland Kiosk for Home Lab Dashboard
In looking for upgrades to my home lab, one of the things that I wanted to implement was a kiosk type dashboard that rotated between different monitoring screens showing different…
New OSConfig PowerShell Security Tool in Windows Server 2025
In looking at Windows Server 2025 and security configuration settings, there is a new tool that Microsoft has introduced called OSConfig. In case you haven’t heard of it, this blog…
NetBox Docker Compose Install Example
The NetBox solution is a great tool that can allow you to document and have a single source of truth for your network and infrastructure. Network and infrastructure engineers can…
Install Windows Server 2025 on Proxmox
With the Windows Server 2025 Preview release available, I know many are trying out Windows Server 2025 across their environments, including home labs running Proxmox VE Server. Let’s take a…
Mount Synology Drive in Proxmox with NFS
Mounting your NAS storage inside of Proxmox is a great way to add storage to your Proxmox VE Server for things like storing ISO images and other purposes, even running…
Configure TerraMaster Hyper Cache NAS SSD Caching
In working with the TerraMaster F4-424 Max, one of the features that I wanted to play around with was the SSD cache on this hybrid NAS. I installed (2) NVMe…
TerraMaster F4-424 Max NAS Review for Home Lab
In my opinion, NAS devices are getting better and better with more powerful hardware and better software on top of them. I recently reviewed the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus and…
Ceph Storage Calculator to find Capacity and Cost
If you are spinning up a Ceph storage pool and working with Ceph to store things like virtual machines in your Proxmox VE Server cluster, you may want to have…
RAIDZ Calculator to find ZFS Capacity and Cost
Manually calculating your ZFS RAID storage capacity and cost can be something that you want to do if you are building out ZFS implementation. You may be looking for a…
Share your Home Lab 2024 and Win a $799 Mini PC
In an effort to motivate ones to share their home labs with the community, I will be giving away a Beelink SEi14 Mini PC to a random winner who shares…