proxmox Tag Archive
Proxmox VE 8.4 released
Proxmox, as you may know, is my go-to virtualization environment at home. A wide range of supported hardware combined with open-source tools makes for a great foundation for a homelab. Proxmox has been updated to version 8.4. This version improves functionality for shared hardware devices, a backup API, the ability to pass files from the […]
Proxmox Datacenter Manager: Centralized Management for Proxmox VE
Proxmox Server Solutions announced the first Alpha release of Proxmox Datacenter Manager, an open-source server management software designed to provide a unified overview of all nodes and clusters in Proxmox VE environments. This new tool aims to simplify the management of virtualized environments by offering a modern user interface and centralized control. Key Features of […]
Homelab Maintenance
I work out of my home office full-time. I spend a lot of time here, and so I’m used to the way things look – and sound. I was on a video call this week when something felt off. I took off my headphones and heard it. clunk. clunk. One of the drives in my […]
CEPH and Proxmox VE
I’ve wanted to add high-availability to my Proxmox cluster, but I’ve got some work to do first. CEPH is a distributed storage system that can be used as a storage backend in Proxmox VE. CEPH provides highly available and fault-tolerant storage by distributing data across multiple storage nodes in a cluster. In Proxmox VE, CEPH […]
Proxmox VE 7.4 released
Proxmox is an open-source bare metal virtualization system I use in my homelab. Proxmox supports clustering, high availability and backup using industry standard tools running on relatively mod-free Debian Linux, qemu and kvm. It supports any hardware supported by Debian, which makes use in a lab environment practical – after running VMWare’s vSphere and Nutanix […]
Proxmox First Steps
TechnoTim has a great homelab how-to channel on YouTube. This video shows all the steps he’d do when creating a Proxmox server for the first time. Setting update sources, reconfiguring storage, setting up networking and VLANs, updating ISOs, preparing for clustering, and more – all the things I wish I knew after my Proxmox server […]
Proxmox helper scripts
I use Proxmox as the basis for my homelab. Proxmox is an open source bare-metal hypervisor with support for a wide array of hardware (if Linux runs on it, it’ll probably run Proxmox…) Proxmox offers many enterprise-level features, like clustering, backup, advanced networking, certificate management, application support and support for ZFS, NFS and CIFS shares. […]
Kasm – Docker containers in your browser!
I just discovered Kasm, an amazing little tool that lets you run Docker containers on a remote server in a client browser. From their web site: Streaming containerized apps and desktops to end-users. The Workspaces platform provides enterprise-class orchestration, data loss prevention, and web streaming technology to enable the delivery of containerized workloads to your […]