Virtualization & Proxmox
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How to Benchmark Your Proxmox Host’s Storage and Network Performance
Choosing between SSD tiers, filesystem options, and network configurations has been a recurring theme across earlier guides in this series — but tho…
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How to Use Proxmox’s Built-In Firewall
Between UFW on individual servers, pfSense/OPNsense at the network edge, and Proxmox’s own hardware, there’s actually a fourth layer worth understandi…
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How to Set Up Ceph Storage in Proxmox
The High Availability guide covered earlier in this series mentioned Ceph as one option for shared storage across a cluster, without going deep into the…
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How to Pass Through an NVMe Drive Directly to a VM in Proxmox
NVMe passthrough in Proxmox provides exactly that, giving a VM raw, direct control over a physical drive.
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LXC vs VM in Proxmox: When to Use Which
Understanding LXC vs VM in Proxmox properly helps you make a deliberate choice for each new service rather than defaulting to whichever you happen to be…
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How to Set Up Nested Virtualization in Proxmox
Testing a multi-node Proxmox cluster setup, practicing Kubernetes cluster configuration, or experimenting with another hypervisor entirely usually means ne…
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Understanding Proxmox Resource Limits: CPU, Memory, and Ballooning
Getting Proxmox resource limits right matters more as you run more VMs simultaneously on the same physical hardware.
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How to Configure the Proxmox Built-In Firewall
Understanding Proxmox firewall configuration lets you apply consistent network security policies across your entire cluster, VMs, and containers alike, …
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How to Set Up Proxmox SDN for Advanced Network Isolation
Manually configuring VLANs and bridges across multiple Proxmox nodes gets complicated fast, especially as your cluster grows and you want consistent net…
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How to Migrate VMware VMs to Proxmox
Following VMware’s licensing changes after the Broadcom acquisition , plenty of homelab users are moving existing VMware VMs over to Proxmox rather than…