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Proxmox Shared Storage
Why use Shared Storage on Proxmox? Shared storage on Proxmox, as with many other Hypervisor environments, provides a few benefits: It reduces the need for duplication of some data resources you may want to share between hosts - eg shared ISO installers. It can be used for migration purposes between hosts. It can be used as part of high availability / failover storage between hosts. Shared storage on Proxmox can be used for all of these things - it is useful in a home lab, and essential in production deployment.
May 22, 2024
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Proxmox VLAN Networking
What are VLANs and why should I use them? Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) allow the user a of network segmentation, which when combined with subnets, allow for a greater level of administrative control than a simple “flat LAN” single network approach. Whilst you can split up network traffic using VLANs to physical devices, most hypervisors allow you extend the physical VLAN environment into the hypervisor. Different hypervisors take different approaches to how this is implemented.
May 20, 2024
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How To Build A Proxmox Cluster
Proxmox VE (Virtualization Environment) allows you to scale out your environment using clustering. Even if you have no interest in the high availability features that this can provide, it eases the administrative load when you have multiple Proxmox nodes to manage. Comparison with VMWare VMware consists of ESXi hosts to provide compute, memory and disk storage (either directly attached or network attached), and a centralised management node in the form of the vCenter Server.
May 13, 2024
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How To Setup Nested Proxmox (or Proxmox on Proxmox)
With many users moving from VMware to Proxmox due to the licencing changes, there is an increased need to understand the Proxmox PVE hypervisor behaviour. A nested test lab may offer a good solution to help you quickly get to grips with the clustering behaviour. Understanding nested behaviour “Nested” virtualisation is when you run a hypervisor on an already hypervised guest VM - you can think of it as like a set of Russian dolls, or the “dream within a dream” of the movie Inception.
April 15, 2024
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Proxmox Home Lab on an Old Laptop
How to repurpose an old laptop as a Proxmox Hypervisor. The virtualisation landscape has shifted in 2024, with the change to VMware licencing after Broadcomm’s acquisition, and the end to the ESXi free licence. vSphere (featuring vCenter Server for centralised administration and ESXi as compute nodes) is now much less cost effective for smaller scale deployments. The “ESXi only” free approach has long been used by the smallest deployments for single hypervisor hosts and a handful of guest VMs - and has been useful for the hobbyist.
March 29, 2024
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Disable Wifi by Timer
Disable Wifi by Timer Alexa is still asleep… go back to bed. Some people are night owls, whilst others are early birds. Then there are children… In my house, despite making it clear when is an acceptable time to get out of bed and when not, this is not always stuck to by the younger family members. When this happens, the TV and Firestick are usually on within seconds. This isn’t so bad if the kids are good at turn taking (!
March 17, 2024
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Dinnertime Gaming Blocker
Because you can love gaming a bit too much. We all love a bit of gaming at my house, myself, my wife and my kids. The only problem is, when it is time to stop and come off the computer games in time for dinner. Whether it is Minecraft, Party Animals, Kerbal Space Program or anything else, the kids don’t want to stop. As parents, we’ve been met with ‘in a minute’ refusals that have found food going cold, and a lot of frustration on our part.
March 10, 2024