I rebuilt my home lab around XCP‑ng, put the Xen stack through a week of real-world tinkering, and — despite solid hypervisor performance — I’m moving back to Proxmox VE for everyday home‑lab and self‑hosting work.
Background / Overview
The virtual‑infrastructure landscape for home labs has...
If you blinked, you might have missed it: VMware, the virtualization juggernaut, has pulled a plot twist more dramatic than a soap opera season finale. The company quietly revived its free ESXi hypervisor, a move that has set the virtualization and IT communities abuzz. For those following...
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A full year after VMware unceremoniously stuffed its most beloved community freebie into a digital sarcophagus, something unexpected is stirring in the world of virtualization: the resurrection of ESXi's free tier. In a move that’s as quietly dramatic as a hypervisor reboot at 3am (when nobody’s...
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