Articles
Nutanix Community Edition for Home Lab
With the massive uncertainty regarding VMware vSphere, there are a lot of home labbers out there who are looking at alternatives to VMware vSphere. T…
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Articles
Xen Orchestra 5.90 Released XCP-ng 8.30 and New XO Lite Features
Vates, the company behind Xen Orchestra and the new XO Lite managing XCP-ng the open-source version of the Citrix hypervisor, has shipped a new relea…
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VMware
Proxmox HA Cluster Configuration for Virtual Machines
If you are learning the Proxmox hypervisor or want high-availability cluster resources for learning and self-hosting services with some resiliency, b…
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CephFS Configuration in Proxmox Step-by-Step
Since working with Ceph in Proxmox VE lately, one of the cool features that I wanted to try out was Proxmox CephFS, which allows you to work with you…
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Articles
E Cores vs P Cores in Home Servers
If you are thinking about a new mini PC for your home lab server and want to go the Intel CPU route, there are some considerations to be made when se…
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Articles
LXC vs Docker: Pros and Cons Explained
When we start talking about running containers in the home lab or production, two types of containers usually come up in conversation for runnin…
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Articles
Firewalla Gold SE Review for Home Lab
I was recently sent one of the new Firewalla Gold SE devices to test out in the home lab. However, other than the unit being sent to me for my though…
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VMware
Talos Linux Kubernetes VMware vSphere Installation
I am always looking for new Kubernetes installations to play around with and check out the viability for running Kubernetes clusters in the home lab …
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Windows Server
Best Home Server Virtualization Projects in 2024
As we get more into 2024, if you are looking at virtualization projects and labs to get started learning, there are many great learning projects y…
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Windows Server
Beelink SEi12 Review as Mini PC Home Server with Core i7-12650H
The Beelink SEi12 mini PC is an interesting mini PC that contains a 12th-generation Intel Core i7 processor. Beelink recently sent a SEi12 to me to t…
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