home lab

Everyone, I wanted to post a link to a resource I have created, a free e-book for Proxmox home lab users. It is a 300+ page e-book that covers everything from installation, configuration, storage, networking, SDN, and other useful tips. You can download it for free here...

Hey guys! I transferred one of my major VMs from Hyper-V to Proxmox by using the Star Wind converter and everything looks good and I have it on the disk I want but when I try to boot it its saying it cant find the boot drive? Any ideas. Thank you!

Hi, I have an offer to buy a Macbook Mini 2018 A1993 32GB RAM 256GB/512GB i7 6 cores for $400 for my first home lab server. I want to learn virtualization, try to install Zabbix, Gitlab runner module, some basic Linux/Sys Admin tools. Is it worth it or not? Thank you for all your advises

Hi, i am using Proxmox with ZFS replication and HA, i have set the /etc/pve/corsync.conf: quorum_votes: 1 two_nodes: yes but everytime the pve1 crashes the pve2 stays on "waiting for quorum", when pve1 is online again the option is back to default, how to solve this?

Hello! I had my new Proxmox server crash and it was saying something about a read write error and when checking the logs its filled to the brim with the same error over and over again. Is this something I should be concerned about? Thank you! Feb 18 03:00:10 PPS01 ceph-crash[1106]...

Hello guys, I started to install a Proxmox VE on a server as a Home Lab to host some services. Those services needs to be accessed from anywhere. Basically, I've followed this tutorial: https://blog.zwindler.fr/2020/03/02/deploiement-de-proxmox-ve-6-pfsense-sur-un-serveur-dedie/ But I think...

Hello, I know there must be an easy fix to my problem but I have looked up for 6 months and no video, forum, or person could help me with this... I want to start a home server with and really old pc, mainly a NAS server and a plex one. Please keep in mind that I'm a noob with those things...

My current NAS setup has Proxmox VE running on bare metal and TrueNAS Scale running in a VM. I created a zfs pool "appspool" from the UI: Datacenter -> Storage -> Add -> ZFS I then created a TrueNAS scale VM and passed through the disk qm set 900 --scsi2...

so, i have heard of proxmox a lot lately, and have been looking into it. then i come across this video and i don't like annoying popups. also, i don't mind supporting projects like this. so i venture over to the pricing page and i'm a little confused. it looks like it's $100 USD/year to remove...

Hello, I have decide to transfere all my nas HDD on my Promox server and after little issue (see here: Failed to import pool ‘rpool’; ssd ko ? No go to X570D4I-2T BIOS!), it’s done proxmox see they new hdd (and one new ssd ) First one question: Proxmox see my new HDD … and also the raid 5...

I've been running Proxmox about 2 years now and I'm always struggling with high IO issues. Due to conficting information online I've tried a ton of different settings and although it has been better then it was it's still not great. So I thought I would write this post and ask for some help...

Hi all, I am not an expert in this world, and I would ask you a little suggestion about the choose of right hardware platform to create a small virtual home lab to run some Virtual Machine. At the moment I do not think more than 4/5 VMs at the same moment. Typically 2/3 VM. I have seen on-line...