Virtualization

In VMware environments, using NFS storage is one of the simplest ways to provide shared storage for ESXi hosts. When combined with a VMware Distributed Switch (VDS), it offers better network management, traffic isolation, and scalability across multiple ESXi hosts. This tutorial will guide you through configuring Windows Server 2022...

Virtualization has become the core of modern datacenters, and VMware vSphere remains the industry leader for enterprise-grade virtualization management. One of the most powerful and widely used features in the VMware ecosystem is vMotion—a technology that allows you to migrate running virtual machines between ESXi hosts without shutting them down,...

Configuring NFS (Network File System) storage for VMware ESXi is one of the easiest and most flexible ways to provide shared storage for virtual machines, ISO images, templates, and backups. In this guide, you will learn how to set up NFS on Windows Server 2022, create a dedicated VMkernel port...

I recently in compiling my latest list of Proxmox tools that you need to know about for the home lab, stumbled on a new community-developed tool called PVETUI. It is a VERY cool, text-based user interface that runs directly from your terminal to manage your Proxmox VE Server environment. Let’s see...

When it comes to open-source monitoring, two tools come up quite often for building out monitoring stacks for things like Kubernetes monitoring (storage, scaling, performance, etc), cloud monitoring, application metrics, and many others in your environment – InfluxDB and Grafana. There are others like telegraf, chronograf, and others that you...

Pulse is an open-source monitoring platform that you can run for free for monitoring. It was built specifically for Proxmox VE Server.

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 9.1, there is yet even another way to run your containers in your home lab environment with OCI containers. So,...

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 of what I think are meaningful improvements that really do touch ever major part of the platform. This incoudes containers,...

Here’s a polished and professional rewrite of your text: I did a double take when I checked the ProxMenuX repository and noticed that the latest release includes a brand-new tool called ProxMenuX Monitor. My curiosity instantly kicked in, so I pulled the latest version from the repo and gave it...

Here’s a polished, professionally rewritten version of your text: If you’ve been keeping an eye on Proxmox over the past few years, one tool has consistently caught everyone’s attention: Proxmox Datacenter Manager. We first saw it in its early alpha stage, then later in beta, and now the big moment...