Migrating a simple server from VMware ESXi to Proxmox PVE

I just migrated a rather small server from VMware ESXi 7.0 to Proxmox 8.1.3 hypervisor. The server had two virtual Windows 10 machines. I document the steps here, in case it might be helpful to someone in the same situation. Step 1: Install a new, empty drive Insert a fresh SSD in the server andContinue reading “Migrating a simple server from VMware ESXi to Proxmox PVE”

Running piper and whisper for Home Assistant on Proxmox (LXC-based)

Piper and Whisper are Home Assistant add-ons needed for creating voice assistant pipelines. Piper is a local text-to-speech engine (TTS), and Whisper is a speech-to-text engine (STT). By using these, we can get rid of cloud services such as Google or OpenAI. If you have installed Home Assistant on Proxmox using the LXC version, notContinue reading “Running piper and whisper for Home Assistant on Proxmox (LXC-based)”

Running Docker containers on Proxmox

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a great way of hosting virtualized resources (virtual machines and LXC containers). But setting up such an LXC container, and then running Docker, is not too easy for a beginner. In this post, I will list the steps to get it running. Basically, these are the main steps to take: SoContinue reading “Running Docker containers on Proxmox”

Proxmox: Configure a network bridge for internal networking

Usually, you want to cluster your Proxmox containers and VMs in subnets that are different from your real local area network, e.g. because some services should only be accessible inside of Proxmox. But after initial installation, Proxmox has one network bridge interface called “vmbr0”. It provides a virtual switch which connects all VMs and containersContinue reading “Proxmox: Configure a network bridge for internal networking”