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The Lab
THE HOMELAB
THE HOMELAB
What started as a few computers and a home network has gradually become a small lab for experimenting with servers, virtualization, networking, storage and automation.
Some of the hardware is new. Some of it has been given a second life. And some of it probably consumes more electricity than I should admit.
FROM ENTERPRISE TO HOMELAB
FROM ENTERPRISE TO HOMELAB
After years of managing VMware and data-center infrastructure professionally, some of that enterprise technology eventually followed me home.
A retired Dell VxRail server now runs Proxmox, ZFS storage and virtual machines — hardware that once lived in a data center getting an entirely different second career.
THE NETWORK BEHIND IT
THE NETWORK BEHIND IT
The lab isn't just servers. It's also the network connecting everything together: UniFi switching and Wi-Fi, multiple VLANs, internal DNS, isolated IoT and guest networks, monitoring, automation and the inevitable Raspberry Pi.
Most of it exists for one reason: I like understanding how all the pieces fit together.
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO TINKER WITH.
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING TO TINKER WITH.
The Lab is never really finished. Hardware changes, software gets replaced, experiments succeed, experiments fail — and there's always another idea waiting on the list.
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