Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome to the setup guide for my Proxmox Home Server! In this part we get everything ready and we build our foundation. Installing Proxmox, some post-installation steps, creating some storage pools, and building our first container with a network file sharing!

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⏰ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - WHAT WE DOIN
00:54 - Consider the Hardware
03:25 - Installing Proxmox
06:09 - FIX THOSE REPOS
07:56 - Removing local-lvm (optional)
10:50 - Enable IOMMU
12:59 - ZFS Storage Pools
15:58 - ZFS Commands
16:48 - Create the LXC!
20:34 - MOUNT THE POOLS
22:14 - Ubuntu Post-Install Stuff
24:34 - Network Samba Shares
30:26 - Windows Auto-Discovery (wsdd)
32:34 - fin