A VMware home lab is your own environment for learning virtualization, testing upgrades, and experimenting with production-like setups without impacting critical systems. With carefully chosen ...

Although designed to act as a home/small business file and back-up repository, Tom thinks its specs might allow it to work a storage server for virtualization for a small home lab. In previous ...

For a family member, Tom sets up the Terramaster and tests it for suitability as a NAS for his own home VMware lab. Last year I set up and reviewed a QNAP TS-431K after having a catastrophic failure ...

Enthusiasts are increasingly using virtual machines not just for experiments, but as full-time computing environments. From running smart homes and family backups on a Mac mini to gaming and video ...

Looking for some advice on this combo for a home / lab virtualization build to run maybe 10 or 12, maybe more, low-resource utilization Hyper-V Virtual Machines for my own learning and experimenting: ...

What if you could transform a corner of your home into a high-tech hub for experimentation, learning, and innovation? Imagine a compact setup where you can manage your own network, experiment with ...

The public cloud is mature and reliable. So why does Brien still run a bunch of physical servers out of his home? For a lot of good reasons that the cloud can't match, it turns out. When I walked away ...