Storage
Best SSD and NVMe for Servers and a Homelab
Two consumer SSDs sat in the same server. One acknowledged 642 durable writes a second, the other 2,024,…
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Virtualization
Storage
NVMe vs SATA SSD for a Proxmox Datastore: PLP and Endurance
The fastest SSD on the spec sheet is often the worst choice for a Proxmox node. I learned…
Proxmox
Best Mini PC for a Homelab, Proxmox, and Self-Hosting
Picking a mini PC for Proxmox and a homelab is really six choices, not one. A single low-power…
Proxmox
20 Things to Do After Installing Proxmox VE 9
The Proxmox VE installer is done in about ten minutes. Turning that fresh node into something you would…
Proxmox
ZFS RAID Levels on Proxmox VE: Stripe, Mirror, RAIDZ1/2/3
The RAID level you pick when you create a ZFS pool on Proxmox is permanent for that group…
Proxmox
Build a 3-Node Hyperconverged Ceph Cluster on Proxmox VE
Hyperconverged means the same three servers run both the virtual machines and the storage those machines live on.…
Proxmox
Proxmox VE Storage Backends Compared: LVM, ZFS, Ceph, NFS, iSCSI
Proxmox VE gives you six storage types, and the one you pick decides three things you cannot easily…
Proxmox
Configure Linux Bridges on Proxmox VE
Every virtual machine and container on a Proxmox host reaches the network through a Linux bridge. The bridge…
Proxmox
Configure the No-Subscription Repository on Proxmox VE 9
A fresh Proxmox VE install points apt at the enterprise repository. Without a subscription key, every apt update…
Containers
Create Debian and Ubuntu LXC Containers on Proxmox VE
An LXC container gives you a full Debian or Ubuntu userland on Proxmox VE without the weight of…
Virtualization
Migrate VMware ESXi to Proxmox VE
Broadcom’s licensing changes turned a slow trickle of VMware departures into a flood, and Proxmox VE is where…
Virtualization
What is New in Proxmox VE 9
Proxmox VE 9 is the current major line of the open-source virtualization platform, rebuilt on Debian 13 “Trixie”…