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NAS vs Virtual SAN vs Ceph: What’s the Best Storage for Your Home Lab?
One of the critical design decisions that you have with a home lab is storage. There are many great options available. And, depending on a few thin…
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Free Up Disk Space in your Kubernetes Cluster
If you run Docker container hosts either standalone or in a Docker Swarm cluster, you are probably familiar with the built-in command docker syst…
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How I Use VLANs to Isolate Docker and Proxmox Services (+ Free Worksheet)
Docker and proxmox vlan configuration One of the core disciplines in networking that you will want to learn is segmentation. We can benefit from …
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VMware ESXi Free Edition Available Again with 8.0U3e – Download Now!
I really couldn’t believe the news that just surfaced on Twitter and elsewhere that Broadcom is bringing back the Free ESXi hypervisor. When we say…
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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 hypervis…
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The Great VMware Exodus, Real Migration Stories and Alternatives for 2025
Vmware exodus We have seen/are seeing a seismic shift in the virtualization space after Broadcom completed the $61 billion acquisition of VMware …
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Install the New VMware ESXi Free Edition Custom ISOs and Limitations
So you may be like me and still wondering if this is some kind of parallel universe where Broadcom reversed their decision to pull the free VMware …
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VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 9.0 Released New Features
Vcf 9.0 released new features Well, we have heard about it for quite some time now, but VMware Cloud Foundation VCF 9.0 is here. It has a lot…
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Run Ollama with NVIDIA GPU in Proxmox VMs and LXC containers
I have been having tons of fun working with local LLMs in the home lab the last few days and I wanted to share a few steps and tweaks having to do …
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VMSA-2025-0004 Critical VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion Vulnerability Patch Now!
In case you haven’t heard as of yet, there is a new critical VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion vulnerability that has been discovered and noted …
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