home server
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Mini PC & Server
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 and want to give you guys my thoughts and review…
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Nutanix
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 have seen 10-15x price increases. With this being the case,…
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Computers
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 skills if you don’t have any experience with Nutanix so…
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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 Raspberry Pi OS for your Raspberry Pi boards (Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi 5, etc). We will consider 20 different…
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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 for using the software as a home lab platform and to play around with various hypervisors, etc. Installing Proxmox in…
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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 PC in its own right. However, I wanted to put it through the paces and let you guys know what…
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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 will be a great resource for the home lab for those looking at how they can easily and cheaply set…
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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 with it a bit more on vanilla Ubuntu Server installations. Let’s look at installing Cockpit on Ubuntu and see the…
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home lab
I am Creating a Disaster Recovery Site for My Home Lab
Most will say home labs are generally over the top, with server-grade hardware in server racks. And I think I agree for the most part. However, most of us do what we do because we love tinkering around with technology…
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home lab
Running Dissimilar VMware Cluster on Mini PCs
As I have written about quite a bit lately, I have been pairing down the home lab environment from my older Supermicro servers to mini PCs that I have been testing on the past few months. One of the main…
