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How to Compact a VHD or VHDX File using PowerShell

April 1, 2022 Zsolt Agoston
These three simple commands will compact your vhd or vhdx file, removing the whitespace inside ... [Read More]

How to Add a Thin-Provisioned Disk in Proxmox

March 29, 2022 Zsolt Agoston
Learn how to convert a qcow2 disk file to thin-provisioned type ... [Read More]

Proxmox Update Unauthorized Issue Fix

March 27, 2022 Zsolt Agoston
A quick tip on how to fix the Failed to fetch, unathorized error in Proxmox when trying to update the system ... [Read More]

How to Add Extra Storage to Proxmox

March 23, 2022 Zsolt Agoston
Step by step guide shows how to add new storage disks to an existing Proxmox installation ... [Read More]

How to Set Up VLANs on Proxmox

March 10, 2022 Zsolt Agoston
This is the second part of our series about how to set up a home IT lab. The first part was about configuring a Proxmox hypervisor on an old machine. This part shows you how to set up VLANs for ... [Read More]

How to Remove Proxmox License Warning

March 7, 2022 Zsolt Agoston
This guide shows you how to remove the pesky 'No valid subscription' warning from your Proxmox portal ... [Read More]

How to Build a Home IT Lab with Proxmox

March 3, 2022 Zsolt Agoston
This article shows how to build a complete IT lab with multiple subnets using a single computer, and a switch ... [Read More]

How to Build a Home IT Lab with Hyper-V

March 1, 2022 Zsolt Agoston
Learn how to build a full IT lab on your Windows home computer with subnets and proper routing ... [Read More]

How to create NAT-ed subnets in Hyper-V

May 17, 2021 Zsolt Agoston
In this exercise we go through the process of setting up a Hyper-V environment on a regular computer, with multiple virtual switches and subnets configured on them ... [Read More]

Enable Proxmox Nested Virtualization

May 10, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
The question has been asked many times already: is it possible to run a hypervisor INSIDE a Proxmox machine as a VM? The answer is yes. It is called nested virtualization and in this article, we will see how it ... [Read More]

Forward whole trunk ports to VMs in Proxmox

May 3, 2020 Zsolt Agoston
In certain scenarios we might need to forward a full VLAN trunk to a VM. In this article we go through a process of virtualizing a switch in ProxMox to achieve this easily. Before You Begin We assume the trunk ... [Read More]

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