VMware ESXi on Intel Core Ultra CPUs: Interesting Observations
Recently, I was able to play around with the Beelink SEi14 mini PC that has some really good specs AND an Intel processor that makes this VMware ESXi friendly. However,…
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.
Proxmox Backup with Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2
One of the really cool new features that Veeam has added with Veeam Backup & Replication 12.2 is native Proxmox backup that is agentless. In other words, you don’t have…
Beelink Sei14 Mini PC Review as a Home Lab Server with Intel Arc
Beelink kindly sent over a Beelink Sei14 Mini PC for me to review. Of course I do reviews a little bit differently than most when it comes to Mini PCs.…
How to upgrade the Minisforum MS-01 BIOS
If you are running the Minisforum MS-01 in your home lab as a home server, if you are like me, you may have bought one of the first ones that…
Minisforum MS-A1 Giveaway! Comment and Subscribe to win
Recently, I posted a post about the perfect home lab environment. Also, in conjunction with this post, the latest video for my channel focuses on this configuration and also I…
VMware Workstation 17.6 Pro Released: New Features and Harder Upgrade
If you are running VMware Workstation 17.x, the latest release, VMware Workstation 17.6 Pro, has dropped with new features to note in the new release. However, there is also the…
Perfect Home Lab 2024: MS-01s, NVMe Memory Tiering, and NVMe NAS
I think I may have found my perfect solution for home lab at least at this time. I now have two MS-01s in a cluster configuration, with NVMe memory tiering…
How to Run VMmark 4 to Benchmark Your Virtual Environment and Home Lab!
I have been intrigued with benchmarking recently, with several projects, both personally and professionally, in the data center and the home lab. A great benchmark solution for virtualized environments is…
Powervault ME5024 Configuration Step by Step
I recently got my hands on a Dell Powervault ME5024 storage array with flash storage, two controllers, and 25 GbE interfaces. Since I went through the setup and configuration of…
LM Studio with Phi 3.5 on Snapdragon X Elite No NPU support yet
I upgraded from my Surface Laptop 4 to a Surface Pro 11 with the Snapdragon X Elite processor and have been very satisfied so far with the performance, battery life,…