virtualization

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,…

Introduction Networking is one of the most critical components of any virtualized environment. In VMware ESXi, virtual machines (VMs) rely on virtual switches to communicate with each other and the external network. One of the most…

VMware vSphere Replication is a software solution designed for backup and recovery of data in virtualized infrastructures using VMware vSphere. The tool allows users to replicate virtual machines (VMs) from one site to another online,…

Nutanix offers various official training courses, boot camps, and certifications focused on modernizing data centers through hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and cloud platforms, which inherently lead to "slimming" or simplifying…

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…

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…

Easy monitoring?What is LogForge?ArchitectureLogForge FrontendLogForge NotifierLogForge Alert EngineInstalling LogForgeLogForge interfaceToggling on monitoring for containersViewing logs for a containerViewing alerts for containersViewing…

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…

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…

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