home lab
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home lab
Home Server Rack Lighting: Add RGB Bling!
One of the fun and cool things you can do with a home server rack is add lighting. Home server rack lighting can serve two purposes. They can be functional so you can actually see inside your server rack, especially…
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home lab
Snippet-box: Home Lab Dashboard for Code!
I love little self-hosted utilities that are great in what they do and can provide tremendous benefits running them in the home lab. I recently discovered one of those cool little self-hosted container images called Snippet-box. Let’s look at Snippet-box…
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Self hosted
XCP-NG vs Proxmox – Home Lab Comparison
This post will compare XCP-NG vs. Proxmox and the features and capabilities each offers. Both of these are in focus, especially with ones looking for alternatives to VMware vSphere since the Broadcom acquisition. XCP-NG vs Proxmox Table of contentsInstalling XCP-NGWhat…
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Hyper-V
Hyper-V Web Client download for Free
Hyper-V is a great virtualization platform allowing organizations to run virtual machines, including Windows Server and Linux, and experience the benefit of containerized workloads with Hyper-V isolated Docker containers. Managing Hyper-V has always been a challenge with the legacy tools…
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Networking
Palo Alto PA 440 New Firewall Review
For the past few years now, I have been running the Palo Alto Networks PA 220 in the home lab environment. I have the lab bundle subscription with the PA 220. However, I have seen the PA 220 will no…
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vSphere 8
ESXi 8.0 Upgrade in three ways
With the ESXi 8.0 release now available for download, many may consider upgrading their ESXi 7.0 servers to the latest and greatest ESXi version to get all that VMware virtualization offers. For the most part, many will only be doing…
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Proxmox firewall rules configuration
In working with Proxmox, one of the cool features as part of the solution is the Promox firewall and firewall rules. Proxmox VE firewall is a firewall service that allows configuring firewall rules for filtering traffic to the Promox server,…
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home lab
Home lab dashboard with Dashy
Running a homelab provides an excellent opportunity to learn new technologies, applications, services, troubleshooting skills, and the list goes on and on. When you start spinning up dozens or more applications, it can become difficult to have all of your…
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home lab
Home Lab virtualization software I use
Those who have followed my site and Youtube channel know that I am passionate about home lab environments. It has gone a long way toward helping me to sharpen my skills with various platforms, solutions, proof-of-concept environments, and other purposes.…
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Virtualization
XCP-NG in VMware nested virtualization
As many of you may already know from reading my previous blog posts, I really like playing around with hypervisors and different technologies. The nested virtualization capabilities in VMware vSphere provide a great way to do this without the need…
