Build Your First Home NAS With Fygo OS
A home NAS from recycled parts and Fygo OS: the hardware, the four jobs it has to do, the permission gotcha that hides your media, and the free tier.
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Homelab
Builds, upgrades and lessons from my own rack. Mini PCs, NAS boxes, 2.5 and 10 GbE, and the mistakes that cost me a weekend.
22 posts
Proxmox Ceph Networking: Why I Split My 10GbE NICs
Building a 3-node Proxmox VE and Ceph cluster with only two 10GbE ports per node. Why bonding lost, and the four things that broke along the way.
Self-Host Your First App in 15 Minutes with Docker Compose
Host your first app on your own hardware with one Compose file and one command. No container experience, no subscription, real gotchas included.
Home Server: 5 Things to Do First
You installed Proxmox, now what? The five first steps that take a home server from installed to solid: fixed IP, no root, snapshots, updates, docs.
Build Your First Home Server in 30 Minutes (Proxmox)
Build a home server from nothing in about 30 minutes with Proxmox VE: flash the installer, create your first VM and run a useful service. No experience needed.
I Built a Free IT Learning Platform for Sysadmins
Introducing Mylemans Labs: free, structured IT learning paths for networking, PowerShell, Proxmox, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 and Docker.
Plan VLANs for a New Site with Network Designer
A practical walkthrough of using networkdesigner.app to plan VLANs and subnets for a new network site
Turn a Laptop into a Home Lab with Proxmox and OpenWRT
Turn any laptop into a portable home lab with Proxmox VE and OpenWRT: multi-WAN failover, a desktop environment, and VMs behind your own router.
Proxmox Datacenter Manager Beta: Worth It for Homelabs?
A deep dive into Proxmox Datacenter Manager 0.9 Beta, central management for multiple Proxmox VE clusters, perfect for homelab users.
Proxmox Backup Server: Install and Configure Step by Step
What Proxmox Backup Server is, why every Proxmox host should have one, and how to install it, add the datastore and schedule deduplicated VM backups.
How to Migrate a Hyper-V VM to Proxmox (Step-by-Step Guide)
Step-by-step tutorial on migrating a Hyper-V virtual machine to Proxmox using qemu-img and VirtIO drivers.
PrivateGlue Walkthrough: One UI for Your Homelab
Walkthrough of PrivateGlue, my self-hosted Flask app for homelab documentation: device inventory with CSV import, encrypted credentials and Markdown notes.
Setting Up the Creality K1 Max with OrcaSlicer
First setup of the Creality K1 Max and OrcaSlicer, with the printer profile, custom G-code and a test print before printing rackmounts for ProDesk Minis.
Mini PC Rack: DeskPi RackMate T0 Review with 3 HP Mini PCs
A 10-inch rack for mini PCs: building the DeskPi RackMate T0 around three HP ProDesk 600 G4 Minis running Proxmox and Ceph, with a PDU and a hidden switch.
50TB NAS Build with Jonsbo N2 and HexOS
My 50TB NAS in a Jonsbo N2 with five 10TB HDDs, two 2TB NVMe drives and an N100 board running HexOS, plus the libata.force=noncq fix for SATA NCQ errors.
How to Build a Quiet and Powerful Home Lab in a Tiny PC
Upgrade a tiny PC into a silent home lab node: 64 GB RAM, a 2 TB NVMe drive and a dual 2.5 Gbit network card on a PCIe riser, bracket trimmed to fit.
Automate an RDS Lab from ISO to Deployment with PowerShell
Build a full RDS lab on Hyper-V from a Windows Server ISO with my HomeLab PowerShell project: VHDX template, then DC, domain join and RDS from JSON.
Fix MDT BSOD on Proxmox VMs: Import the VirtIO Drivers
Windows VMs on Proxmox blue-screened during MDT deployment until I added a driver fallback step with the VirtIO drivers and a PowerShell check.
Build a 3-Node Proxmox Cluster with Ceph Step by Step
Build a three-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph: create the cluster, join two nodes, install Ceph and OSDs, then run a VM on Ceph storage and live migrate it.
Installing Proxmox
Video of a first Proxmox VE install: the country detection hang fixed by replugging the network cable, picking the disk and setting FQDN and static IP.
My New Home Lab Journey - The 2.5 Gbit Network Upgrade
I moved the home lab to 2.5 Gbit with M.2 Realtek adapters and a temporary switch, and found the Windows Update driver caps the link at 1 Gbit.
My New Home Lab Journey
I built a new home lab on three HP ProDesk 600 G4 Minis (i3-8100T, 32 GB, 2 TB NVMe) running Server 2019 Hyper-V, deployed via MDT, with 2.5 Gbit next.