virtualization
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home lab
8 Virtual Machine Projects You Need to Build This Weekend!
I have been focused a lot on containerized development and DevOps lately and many of the weekend projects I have written about have been focused there. However, for those that love projects involving virtual machines, these are still very much…
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Proxmox
Proxmox VE 9’s New Mobile Web UI: Manage Your Cluster from Anywhere
In case you haven’t heard, Proxmox 9 has officially dropped and it contains some great new features like LVM thick LUN snapshots, SDN fabric enhancements and more. However, one of the features that has flown under the radar is a…
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Proxmox
Instant VMs and LXCs on Proxmox: My Go-To Terraform Templates for Quick Deployments
Terraform is one of the defacto tools when it comes to being about to quickly deploy both virtual machines and LXC containers on Proxmox or any other environment for that matter. I have used it for years in VMware vSphere…
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Virtualization
Platform9 Community Edition Free Download and Install: Migrate from VMware
In case you haven’t heard about Platform9 it is a real contender in the enterprise virtualization space. There have been some pretty large VMware customers that have transitioned over to Platform9 as of recently. Let’s take a look at Platform9…
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Virtualization
Best Hypervisor in 2025: It depends on your pain tolerance
Wow there have been so many changes with virtualization from 2024 into 2025, when looking back at the ground we have covered so far in 2024 and now moving into 2025. When it comes to hypervisors there are so many…
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Proxmox
Proxmox Network Configuration for Beginners including VLANs
Let’s look at Proxmox network configuration for beginners and see how you can get jump started with using it for virtualization. Table of contentsOverview of Proxmox network configurationWhat is the Linux Bridge?The Proxmox Linux BridgeChanging your IP via the command…
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Virtualization
VMware ESXi on Intel Core Ultra CPUs: Interesting Observations
Recently, I was able to play around with the Beelink SEi14 mini PC that has some really good specs AND an Intel processor that makes this VMware ESXi friendly. However, I noticed a couple of oddities and interesting things about…
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VMware
New Scheduled Task to Delete Snapshots in vSphere 8.0 Update 3
In case you have not seen as of yet, one of the new features that is a welcomed addition to vSphere 8.0 Update 3 is a new built-in scheduled task feature that gets rid of snapshots on virtual machines. This…
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VMware
Upgrade VMware ESXi 8.0 to Update 3 with vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Following my post on how to upgrade vCenter Server to 8.0 Update 3, I want to show how you can easily upgrade your ESXi hosts to 8.0 Update 3 with vSphere Lifecycle Manager using the image-based approach for updates. This…
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VMware
Upgrade vCenter Server to 8.0 Update 3
I wanted to share with you guys the process to upgrade vCenter Server from 8.0 Update 2 to the newly released Update 3. The process is super easy and can be completed in just a few minutes. Let’s look at…
