Ultimate Guide to Building a 2.5GbE Home Lab Network in 2025
When it comes to networking, 1 gig networking is becoming “long in the tooth”. There have been many advancements in the networking field, especially getting to 2.5 GbE as a…
Author: Brandon Lee
Brandon Lee is the Senior Writer, Engineer and owner at Virtualizationhowto.com, and a 7-time VMware vExpert, with over two decades of experience in Information Technology. Having worked for numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as in various industries, He has extensive experience in various IT segments and is a strong advocate for open source technologies. Brandon holds many industry certifications, loves the outdoors and spending time with family. Also, he goes through the effort of testing and troubleshooting issues, so you don't have to.
Spring Cleaning Your Home Lab with 5 Ways to Optimize and Save Resources
Every spring many like to take a look around the house and see things they could get rid of, donate, or just downsize. This is usually beneficial and keeps things…
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 things, like which hypervisor…
Home Lab Security: 5 Threats You’re Not Watching (But Should Be)
Running your home lab is a tremendously good resource for learning. It allows you to get your hands on many different technologies and experiment with these in a way that…
Killer Home Lab Projects You Can Build in a Weekend
I think that learning in the home lab is best accomplished by having your learning be project-based. When you have a project that actually benefits you in the home lab…
Top 5 Tools I Use to Manage My Home Lab in 2025
In running a home lab, you will spin up numerous resources, including containers, virtual machines, networks, and many other types of components that comprise self-hosting your services. Certain tools make…
Synology Just Locked Down Your NAS Drives Here’s What to Use Instead
Well, Synology has placed a lock down on the hard drives they will support in their upcoming Synology NAS devices. They are going to start enforcing stricter hard drive rules…
Best Budget GPU for AI in Your Home Server 2025
The heart of running AI workloads at home is the GPU installed in your AI workstation or AI server. If you are running local LLMs like LLaMA or looking to…
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 hypervisors. It seems like Proxmox has…
5 Powerful but Cheap AI Workstations You Didn’t Know You Could Get (Perfect for Your Home Lab!)
I have really been looking at AI for the home lab and the hardware needed to run local language models (LLMs) successfully and in a speedy way. There is no…