Virtualization & Proxmox
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How to Live Migrate VMs Between Proxmox Nodes
Needing to take a Proxmox node offline for maintenance used to mean shutting down every VM running on it first.
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How to Set Up Cloud-Init Templates in Proxmox
A standard VM template still requires manually setting a hostname, network configuration, and SSH keys after cloning.
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How to Monitor Proxmox with Grafana and Prometheus
Proxmox’s built-in web interface shows current resource usage, but it doesn’t easily answer questions like “how did CPU load trend over the last month…
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How to Set Up a Hermes Agent Server in Proxmox
Self-hosted AI agents are quickly becoming a common addition to homelabs, and Hermes Agent has emerged as one of the more popular options for running yo…
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How to Set Up USB Passthrough in Proxmox
Plenty of homelab hardware only works properly when connected directly to a specific machine — a Zigbee USB stick for Home Assistant, a hardware secur…
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How to Set Up High Availability in a Proxmox Cluster
A single Proxmox host means a single point of failure — if that machine’s motherboard, power supply, or storage dies, every VM running on it goes down…
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How to Create and Use Proxmox VM Templates
Then enable the Guest Agent option in the VM’s Proxmox Options tab, which improves shutdown handling and provides more accurate VM status information.
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How to Set Up Proxmox Backup Server for Centralized Backups
Relying on Proxmox VE’s built-in backup scheduler works well for a single node, but as a homelab grows to multiple Proxmox hosts, a dedicated Proxmox…
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Proxmox vs VMware ESXi: Which Is Better for a Home Lab?
For years, VMware ESXi was the default choice for home lab virtualization.
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How to Migrate a Physical Server to Proxmox (P2V Migration)
Retiring an old physical server doesn’t always mean losing what’s running on it.