Geekom AE7 Mini PC Review as Home Server
Recently, Geekom reached out and wanted to send over a Geekom AE7 with the Ryzen 9 7940HS processor. I have had this one on the bench for a while now…
Tag: home lab
Nutanix Hypervisor Networking for VMware vSphere Admins
Many organizations are looking at their options right now for running their virtualization workloads. VMware by Broadcom has been a sour spot for many over the past several months. Many…
Install Nutanix Community Edition on a Mini PC
With so many enterprise organizations switching from VMware over to Nutanix due to the 10-15x price increase brought about by Broadcom, it is a great idea to start learning Nutanix…
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 virtual machines across different hosts with differen CPU generation configurations.…
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 even SMB environments. PfSense has many enterprise features, and the…
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 Raspberry Pi OS for your Raspberry Pi boards (Raspberry Pi…
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 for using the software as a home lab platform and…
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 PC in its own right. However, I wanted to put…
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 up a fresh monitoring stack using the “Tick” stack. Let’s…
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 will be a great resource for the home lab for…
