I Built a Ceph Erasure-Coded NVMe Cluster in My Home Lab. Here’s What Actually Happened
I have been super geeking out on my home lab this week going all in on some nerd knobs of Proxmox clustering and Ceph storage between my cluster hosts. I…
Tag: proxmox
Proxmox Tips I Wish I Knew Before Building My First Home Lab
We have all been there with technologies that we are learning for the first time. We don’t know what we don’t know. When I first started building my home lab…
I Ran Proxmox Datacenter Manager for a Month: What It’s Actually Good At
Well, as we all know, the GA release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager dropped around the first of December last year. This has been a great addition to the Proxmox ecosystem.…
Why Ceph Won for Persistent Storage in My Talos Linux Kubernetes MiniLab
If you are deciding to run a production-grade Kubernetes cluster, Talos Linux Kubernetes makes a lot of sense, since it focuses on being immutable and security-focused. However, it forces you…
Run Proxmox Datacenter Manager in a Docker Container for Home Labs and Testing
If you have been following my recent experiments in the home lab, I recently tested a very cool project for running Proxmox VE Server inside a Docker container. The developer…
Run Proxmox Inside Docker: A Weekend Home Lab Project to Learn Clustering and HA
If you are stuck on another hypervisor at the moment and would like to get over to Proxmox VE Server as your virtualization platform, there is a way that you…
I Spent a Year Running Proxmox and VMware Side by Side in My Home Lab
For years personally and professional, VMware was simply the default choice for production and home lab in my opinion. It was familiar, stable, and everyone was using it at their…
Proxmox Defaults I Leave Alone (And the Ones I Always Change)
One thing that I think makes a really good hypervisor is if it comes out of the box with reasonable and sensible defaults that allow you to hit the ground…
12 Proxmox Host Tweaks Worth Doing This Weekend
Most of us are looking for low-hanging fruit for optimizations you can do that get quick results that are beneficial. Below is a weekend-friendly set of optimizations that will provide…
Proxmox Datacenter Manager Just Went GA and It Changes Everything
If you have been following Promxox for the past couple of years now, there is one tool that piqued I think the attention of all of us and that is…