#homelab
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How to Enable Email Notifications in Proxmox VE
A step-by-step guide to setting up email notifications in Proxmox VE, covering SMTP and sendmail targets, matchers, a working Gmail example, and common setup errors.
How to Create Your First Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE (Step-by-Step Guide)
Never created a VM before? This step-by-step Proxmox VE tutorial walks you through the Create VM wizard tab by tab, explains every setting in plain English, and gets you from a blank ISO upload to a running virtual machine.
Virtual Machine vs LXC Container in Proxmox VE: Which One Should You Use?
Proxmox gives you two ways to run a workload: Create VM or Create CT. Here's what actually happens under the hood with each one, a side-by-side comparison, and a simple way to decide.
How to Enable Email Notifications in Proxmox VE for Backup and System Alerts
Set up Proxmox VE's notification system so failed backups, storage warnings, and cluster issues email you automatically, instead of finding out weeks later.
How to Set Up a VLAN-Aware Bridge in Proxmox VE
A beginner-friendly guide to VLANs in Proxmox VE — what a VLAN-aware bridge does, how to enable it, how to tag individual VMs, and the trunk port setting that trips up almost everyone the first time.
What Is a Proxmox Cluster? (And Do You Actually Need One?)
Clustering sounds like something only data centers need, but it's really just several Proxmox nodes agreeing to share one view. Here's what Corosync and quorum actually mean, and when you genuinely need a cluster versus when you don't.
How to Create Your First LXC Container in Proxmox VE
Virtual machines feel heavy for small Linux services. Here is how to create, start, and manage your first LXC container in Proxmox VE using the web interface and the pct command line tool.
How to Add a Second Hard Drive to a Proxmox VM
A step-by-step guide to adding a second virtual disk to a Proxmox VE virtual machine, from the Proxmox GUI through partitioning, formatting, and mounting it inside Linux.
How to Resize a Virtual Disk in Proxmox VE (Linux and Windows Guests)
Learn how to grow a VM's virtual disk in Proxmox VE and extend the partition and filesystem inside Linux and Windows guests so the extra space is actually usable.