Day-2 Operations
Running a Proxmox homelab day-to-day: VM lifecycle management, practical habits that keep the lab stable, and troubleshooting.
Published April 27, 2024
Day-2 Operations
These pages cover what happens after initial setup — managing the lifecycle of guests, building habits that keep the lab recoverable, and diagnosing problems when they appear.
In This Section
- VM Lifecycle — create, baseline, snapshot, clone, back up, migrate, and retire guests in Proxmox.
- Best Practices — practical habits for keeping a Proxmox-based lab stable, understandable, and easy to recover.
- Troubleshooting and Performance — what to check when VMs or containers are slow, fail to boot, lose network access, or behave strangely under load.
- Vagrant — repeatable, ephemeral VMs from a single file: the
vagrant upandvagrant destroyworkflow for development and experimentation.
How To Use It
Read VM Lifecycle first if you are setting up new guests. Use Best Practices as a checklist once the lab is running. Return to Troubleshooting whenever something breaks.