proxmox
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Proxmox
High-Availability (HA) Proxmox Clusters: Do’s & Don’ts
One of the most powerful features of running a virtualization cluster is being able to have high availability features that are built into the solution. High availability features allow you to run virtual machines in a way that makes them…
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Proxmox
Proxmox Networking Best Practices for Home Labs and Downloadable Cheat Sheet!
One of the most important parts of any virtualization solution is the networking. It doesn’t matter how awesome your storage is or how many capabilities your hypervisor has if you can’t control the flow of the bits. Proxmox is built…
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Mini PC & Server
Best Low Power Mini PC for Proxmox? Geekom A5 2025 Edition Review
I recently got my hands on the Geekom A5 2025 edition mini PC and I was excited to try this one as it had “low-power” written all over it with the CPU and other specs. And, spoiler alert, it definitely…
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Proxmox
ProxMenux Might Be the Best Proxmox Management Tool You’re Not Using
I caught wind a few weeks back of a new tool that I know I hadn’t heard about as of yet. It is called ProxMenux and after 5 minutes of using it, I knew that it is probably the best…
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Proxmox
How to Enable GPU Passthrough to LXC Containers in Proxmox
I have been playing around lately with the GPU passthrough functionality in Proxmox and looking at the best ways to run AI workloads in Proxmox. Virtual machine passthrough is a great way to run something like Ollama. However, I wanted…
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Proxmox
My Top 3 Proxmox Server Builds for Performance and Efficiency
I have had so much fun the past few months building Proxmox servers based around Minisforum boards that have come out on the market as of recently, including the BD795M, BD795i SE, and the BD790i X3D. All of these boards…
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home lab
5 Reasons Proxmox Is the Ultimate Home Lab Hypervisor in 2025
There has certainly been a major shift in virtualization technologies over the past year or so. So many have been fleeing VMware for other hypervisors. It seems like Proxmox has become the new favorite in the community and home lab…
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Proxmox
Proxmox VE 8.4 Released New Features and Download!
Proxmox has really accelerated the development and introduction of new features and they have had reason to. I think they have become arguably the most popular free KVM virtualization solution, especially for home lab environments, but even in production. They…
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home lab
Add NVMe slots to your Proxmox Server with Hardware and Bifurcation Mods!
So I have been doing all kinds of modding and strategizing on my Proxmox server and trying different things on my second Proxmox server build. Since I am using the Minisforum BD795i SE, this is a great board, but limited…
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Proxmox
Proxmox Swap Tweaks Guide! Dedicated drive, Swappiness, Page Cluster
I have been doing quite a bit of testing with Proxmox swap and Intel Optane drives for ultra fast swap storage. In doing so have learned quite a bit about configuring your Proxmox swap drive to use dedicated storage, tweak…
