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AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX BIOS Settings: Power Consumption and Bifurcation
I have recently put together a Proxmox Home Lab Server build for 2025 and as the core of the build, I used the Minisforum BD795M motherboard. This …
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Core Performance Boost Setting: Speed vs Power Consumption in Home Lab
I have built up a couple of Ryzen 9 7945HX home server builds over the past few weeks and have experimented a bit with the BIOS settings and things t…
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Articles
Monitor Proxmox with CheckMK Open Source Monitoring
Many are utilizing Proxmox VE Server in their home labs. Proxmox is a great option for running virtual machines and containers and self-hosting. Yo…
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Windows Server
DNS Failover for the Home Lab and Why You Need It
We have all heard the very common expression, “it is always DNS”. We joke about this often, but very often DNS is at the heart of issues with conne…
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Articles
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 bi…
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Articles
Best Terminal for DevOps Just Landed!
Just yesterday at the time of this writing, Warp terminal for Windows was released, rounding out support for all the major OS’es, including macOS a…
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Windows Server
Home Server Build 2025: Run Proxmox or VMware ESXi 16 Cores and 128GB RAM
I have been having fun building Proxmox servers with motherboards from Minisforum. I hadn’t really considered getting back into building servers as…
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Articles
Best Kubernetes Distributions for Home Lab Enthusiasts in 2025
Kubernetes is THE tool to learn for running containers. You can use it in the home lab, and certainly in production and cloud environments. If you …
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Articles
Optimize SSD and NVMe Storage for Virtualization in Your Home Lab
When building out your home lab, the storage layer is arguably one of the most important. Choosing the right storage solution is key to having a pl…
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Articles
Automating Your Home Lab with Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD Pipelines
There has never been a better time to automate your home lab with tools like Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. With the AI tools and help we…
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VMware
VMware Tools Vulnerability VMSA-2025-0005: What You Need to Know
In case you didn’t know, VMware released a new VMware security advisory noted in the VMSA-2025-0005 bulletin and notes the flaw: CVE-2025-22230. Th…
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