Proxmox & Ceph Homelab Guide Everything I’ve learned building and running Proxmox VE clusters with Ceph storage in my homelab. These articles are based on direct, hands-on experience — real problems, real fixes, and real hardware. Getting Started with Proxmox ProxMox 8.2 for the Homelabs — Initial cluster setup and architecture decisions Proxmox VE 8.1 to 8.2 Upgrade Issues — Upgrade pitfalls and how to avoid them Proxmox 8 Lessons Learned — Hard-won tips from running Proxmox in production Ceph Storage Proxmox Ceph Settings for the Homelab — Tuning Ceph for low-power hardware Ceph Cluster Rebalance Issue — Diagnosing and fixing rebalance problems Managing Ceph Nearfull Warnings — Handling capacity warnings before they become outages Optimizing Ceph Performance in Proxmox — Performance tuning and benchmarking Adding Ceph Dashboard to Your Proxmox Cluster — Web-based monitoring setup Ceph Cluster Complete Removal on Proxmox — Clean removal when you need to start over Homelab Storage Economics: Ceph vs Single Drive — Cost analysis of distributed storage Dell Wyse 3040 Cluster My test cluster runs on Dell Wyse 3040 thin clients — $15 each on eBay: ProxMox 8.2.2 Cluster on Dell Wyse 3040s — Building a cluster from thin clients ProxMox 8.2.4 Upgrade on Dell Wyse 3040s — Upgrading the low-resource cluster Dell Wyse 3040 CMOS Battery Replacement — Hardware maintenance Debian 12 on Dell Wyse 3040s — Base OS installation Tailscale on Dell Wyse 3040 — Remote access setup Dell Wyse 3040 eMMC Storage Health Monitoring — Keeping tabs on embedded storage Debian 12 SystemD Nightly Reboots on Dell Wyse 3040s — Stability workarounds Monitoring & Maintenance Monitoring ZFS Boot Mirror Health in Proxmox 8 — SMART monitoring for boot drives Consolidating Proxmox Notes: A Python Export Script — Automating cluster documentation Optimizing Jellyfin on Proxmox: Moving Metadata to CephFS — LXC container optimization with Ceph Supporting Infrastructure Buying a 10Gbps Network on a Homelab Budget — SFP+ networking on the cheap Linux Disk I/O Performance in the Homelab — Quick benchmarking methods Enabling SMART Monitoring on Seagate USB Drives — Getting health data from USB storage