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Proxmox & home lab
These are the notes from running a Proxmox home lab: splitting services into lightweight LXC containers, storage with ZFS and NFS, VLANs and firewalls, backups that you can actually restore, local AI on modest hardware, and keeping the power bill reasonable.
The scripts I use to provision and maintain containers are open source in proxmox-homelab-scripts.
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- 1 Proxmox LXC vs VM: Choosing the Right Virtualization Navigating Proxmox LXC vs VM can be tricky. This guide helps you decide between containers and virtual machines for your Proxmox setup, focusing on performance, isolation, and use cases. 11 min
- 2 Proxmox ZFS Performance Tuning: Optimize Your Home Lab Storage Tune Proxmox ZFS storage performance by adjusting ARC and L2ARC cache sizes, enabling compression, and applying dataset settings for VMs and containers. 10 min
- 3 Proxmox Advanced Networking: VLANs, Firewalls & Security Configure Proxmox advanced networking: step-by-step VLAN setup, firewall rules, and network segmentation strategies for improved security and performance. 9 min
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- 26 Oct 2026Proxmox Ephemeral Dev Environments: Rapid Spin-up & Teardown
- 5 Oct 2026Proxmox Micro-Segmentation: Advanced Network Security for VMs & LXCs
- 24 Sept 2026Proxmox for Developer Workstations: Reproducible Environments
- 17 Sept 2026Proxmox LXC for Local AI Development: Private LLM Workflows
- 10 Sept 2026Proxmox Jetson LXC: Low-Power AI Edge Inference with TPUs
- 7 Sept 2026Proxmox LXC WikiJS Setup: Your Self-Hosted Knowledge Base Guide
- 1 Sept 2026Running Docker & Podman Workloads on Proxmox LXCs: Best Practices
- 20 Aug 2026Proxmox Home Lab Energy Optimization: Monitor & Reduce Costs
- 13 Aug 2026Proxmox OVN Networking: Advanced SDN for Home Lab Mastery
- 10 Aug 2026Proxmox Immutable Cloud Backup: Your Ransomware Protection Guide
- 30 Jul 2026Proxmox Ceph Storage: Scalable & Highly Available Home Lab
- 28 Jul 2026Build a Secure Proxmox VPN Server for Home Lab Access
- 20 Jul 2026Proxmox GPU Passthrough for Frigate & Local AI Vision
- 16 Jul 2026Proxmox Media Server LXC: Plex & Jellyfin Setup Guide
- 9 Jul 2026Proxmox Disaster Recovery: Bare-Metal Restore & VM Replication
- 7 Jul 2026Proxmox Firewall Rules: Advanced Security & Proxmox Internal Firewall for VMs/LXC
- 30 Jun 2026Proxmox with TrueNAS Scale: Advanced Storage for Home Labs
- 25 Jun 2026Proxmox Low Power Server: Build Your Efficient 24/7 Home Lab
- 18 Jun 2026Proxmox K3s Cluster: Lightweight Kubernetes for Home Labs
- 11 Jun 2026Securing Internet-Facing Proxmox Services: Advanced Proxmox Internet Security Guide
- 4 Jun 2026Proxmox NFS Storage & iSCSI Integration for VMs/LXC
- 26 May 2026Proxmox High Availability Cluster: Build a Resilient Home Lab
- 20 May 2026Proxmox Home Lab Cost Analysis: Cloud vs Self-Host
- 19 May 2026Mastering Proxmox Automation with Ansible: A Practical Guide
- 26 Apr 2026Proxmox GPU Passthrough for AI Workloads: Step-by-Step Guide
- 25 Apr 2026Proxmox Backup Strategy: Complete Guide
- 5 Apr 2026Proxmox Home Lab: A Practical Guide to Self-Hosting
- 5 Apr 2026Proxmox Ollama Setup: Self-Hosted AI Server for Developers