12 Things I Wish I Knew Before Upgrading My Home Lab to 10 Gig
One of the best upgrades that I have undergone in my home lab is the move to 10 GbE networking. Without a doubt, that was one of the best performance…
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.
Logward Is the Lightweight Syslog Server Every Home Lab Needs in 2025
I am constantly on the lookout for great tools that help to do things easier in the home lab environment and production than what I am doing currently. In doing…
2025 Home Lab Network Upgrades Every Home Lab Needs
Networking like everything else has evolved quite a bit over the past few years, not really in terms of new technologies, but in terms of new hardware, and pricing of…
Increase Usable RAM In Your Home Lab Without Buying More Memory
If you are like me you are doing double takes when it comes to RAM prices. It seems like over the past few weeks it has crept up on me…
The Best Mini PCs for Home Labs in 2025 (Ranked by Real Performance)
About two and a half years ago I transitioned my home lab over to mini PCs. And, I have to say I haven’t looked back since the. They have fully…
What’s Up Docker Keeps Your Home Lab Containers Updated Automatically
Each time I mention Watchtower for container updates, I generally have comments that Watchtower is a very stale project. This is definitely true as it hasn’t had any updates in…
IncusOS Is the New Minimal Hypervisor OS Changing Home Labs in 2025
Many in the home lab these days are running Proxmox, XCP-ng, or “maybe” back to the now free “again” VMware ESXi. However, another really cool hypervisor that you may not…
Complete Guide to Proxmox Containers in 2025: Docker VMs, LXC, and New OCI Support
One of the things that I really like about Proxmox is all the options it gives when it comes to running containers. And, with the new release of Proxmox VE…
15 Troubleshooting Commands Every Linux Home Lab Admin Should Know
Running your own self-hosted environment usually means you are going to be running Linux servers at some point (or you should be). Linux provides one of the most robust and…
Proxmox VE 9.1 Launches with OCI Image Support, vTPM Snapshots, and Big SDN Upgrades
Here we are late in 2025, with the news that Proxmox VE 9.1 has been released as news from the Proxmox official blog has announced. This release has a lot…