The 8 Hypervisors I’d Actually Recommend in Late 2026
So I think, in my opinion we have an even more rounded out list for virtualization platforms heading into late 2026. The list below is definitely an opinionated list, but…
Tag: virtualization
IncusOS Is the New Minimal Hypervisor OS Changing Home Labs in 2025
Many in the home lab these days are running Proxmox, XCP-ng, or “maybe” back to the now free “again” VMware ESXi. However, another really cool hypervisor that you may not…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. Overview of Proxmox network configuration By default, Proxmox comes…
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,…
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…
