proxmox
Jun 10, 2026
Deploying the manager before the fleet: Proxmox Datacenter Manager, ahead of the hardware
Proxmox Datacenter Manager is most useful once you have several clusters — so I deployed it before the cluster that justifies it. Here's the build, the gotchas, and why a read-only token went to an AI agent.
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Jun 2, 2026 A cluster inside your cluster: how I test scary upgrades
Running small throwaway test clusters inside the main one, so the bleeding-edge software gets to break something disposable first.
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Jun 2, 2026 Upgrading a Proxmox cluster with nobody noticing
How to take a Proxmox cluster from one major version to the next, one node at a time, without any of the services going down.
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May 2, 2026 Proxmox Backup Server: deduplicated backups that just work
How PBS turns a Proxmox cluster into a self-healing backup machine — and why it's worth the extra VM.
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May 1, 2026 Proxmox VE: the free hypervisor that runs my whole lab
How an open-source hypervisor replaced VMware, unified dozens of VMs under one roof, and turned a rack into a real learning platform.
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