Virtualization Guides
Built for IT Pros - written with home labs in mind
I use virtualization daily in my homelab and real projects — from Proxmox and VMware to Hyper-V and containers.
These guides focus on real-world setups, trade-offs, and lessons learned the hard way.
Clear, step-by-step virtualization tutorials for IT pros and home lab builders
From setting up Proxmox clusters to fine-tuning VMware environments—my guides help you avoid common pitfalls and get things running right the first time. Whether you’re building a home lab or managing production systems, you’ll find practical solutions to virtualization challenges.
Start Here
New to virtualization? Start with these guides to understand hypervisors, VMs, and containers without the fluff.
Top Virtualization Guides
My most-read and most-referenced virtualization guides once you’re past the basics.
If you’re moving off ESXi, this is the step-by-step import process I use to get a VMware VM running on Proxmox with the least drama.
I compare Proxmox and ESXi the way I’d do it for my own lab: cost, day-to-day management, and what actually matters once you’re running VMs 24/7.
I break down how I decide between LXC and a VM depending on performance, isolation, and how much I want to tinker later.
One Upgrade I’d Buy Again
This is the switch I recommend for anyone who wants to move to 10GbE without turning their homelab into a data center.
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