The Tools That Quietly Run My Home Lab Every Day in 2026
I have been through quite a transition with my home lab moving into 2026. Not just hardware. There has been a lot of changes on the hardware front, but in…
Tag: home server
This Made My Mini PC Home Lab Feel Enterprise Grade: Intel vPro with AMT
One of the things that I really missed about going away from enterprise grade servers is the out of band management they have by default. Dell has iDRAC, Supermicro has…
5 Unexpected Ways to Save Power in Your Home Lab (Without Killing Performance)
Over the last few years my home lab has diminished in the footprint of the servers I have used to run my home lab workloads. For several years, I ran…
Jumbo Frames Broke My Proxmox Cluster and Here’s Why
If you have ever setup a production virtualization environment, including, VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox, and others, when it comes to networking and storage efficiency, jumbo frames always come into the conversation.…
Is This the vCenter Experience Proxmox Has Been Missing? Meet ProxCenter
One of the thing that a LOT of VMware vSphere admins feel like they are missing is the vCenter-like experience when they move over to Proxmox. This is where they…
I’m Documenting My Entire Home Lab as Code with RackPeek
As you know if you have read my blog posts over the course of the past several months, I have been writing a lot about home lab documentation. Keeping things…
5 Proxmox Management Tools I Use in My Home Lab in 2026
If you are running Proxmox in your home lab in 2026, you already know something. The hypervisor is one of the best out there and arguably I think it is…
What I’d Do (and Avoid) If I Were Building a Home Lab in 2026
Building your first home lab is an exciting adventure and an extremely addictive and rewarding hobby, that not only is fun, but also teaches you skills that you can apply…
Managing Multiple Proxmox Clusters Gets Messy When You Want Smarter Placement
When you start out with Proxmox, it usually begins with a single cluster that feels clean and manageable, with the expected handful of nodes. You have shared storage, the familiar…
This Proxmox Backup Gap Can Wipe Out Your Home Lab
There is a good chance that if you are running Proxmox VE Server in your home lab today, you feel pretty good about your backup solution. Most are running Proxmox…