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Proxmox
Low Power Server with Powertop & Proxmox
If you are like me and using mini PCs for home lab servers as your main workload servers, you are likely doing this for power efficiency reasons. I have gone from true enterprise servers in the home lab down to…
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Storage
How to Update TerraMaster NAS TOS 6 Operating System
If you are running a TerraMaster TOS-powered NAS device (I am now running the TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus unit), you will likely need to update the TOS operating system on your Terramaster when updates come along. I wanted to show…
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Virtualization
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, I noticed a couple of oddities and interesting things about…
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Proxmox
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 to install agents inside your guest virtual machines to back…
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Mini PC & Server
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. The first thing I do is take out the NVMe…
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home lab
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 came out right around the first of this year in…
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home lab
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 partnered with Minisforum for a Minisforum MS-A1 giveaway. Mini PCs…
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VMware
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 matter of a more cumbersome upgrade process as we will…
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home lab
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 enabled and an NVMe NAS. Let me give you guys…
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VMware
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 a program called VMmark. Its latest version is VMmark4, and…
