Proxmox

The virtualization landscape has undergone seismic shifts since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware. As IT professionals and homelab enthusiasts search for the perfect platform to power their infrastructure-as-code workflows, two titans stand ready for battle: VMware ESXi and Proxmox VE. But which platform truly delivers when paired with Terraform? Let's dive...

VMware has just released 3 new VCAPs. Yes, those VMware Certified Advanced Professional. If you're not certified at all, or planning to, you should first chose one of the five base certifications for VCF and VVF. We have detailed all this in our blog post – 5 New VMware Certifications for...

Latest patches from VMware/Broadcom has been released for your vSphere 8 infrastructure. Mainly bug fixes, but there are also some new features that are definitely worth to update (you have to patch to fix bug fixes anyways). One of them is a fact that when you upgrading the vCenter Server...

Many of us are on the lookout for quick-win optimizations that deliver fast and meaningful results. Below is a weekend-friendly set of tweaks designed for those running Proxmox in home labs. Implementing these can enhance performance, stability, and even extend the lifespan of your hardware. Before you start a word...

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...