Building my Home Lab part 4: deploying the domain controller and endpoints

In the previous section, we looked at deploying the hypervisor, firewall and router. This part focuses on emulating a realistic office network consisting of multiple endpoint OSs. The aim is to deploy one system each as a template that we can then clone to their respective networks as needed. We will setup an active directory … Continue reading Building my Home Lab part 4: deploying the domain controller and endpoints →

Building my Home Lab part 3: deploying the core infrastructure (hypervisor,firewall and router)

Let's continue with our lab upgrade project. So far, we've assembled the hardware and hopefully come up with a good enough architectural network design to get us started. Our next step will be to deploy the core infrastructure which will be made up of the hypervisor, firewall and router. For those new to the term, … Continue reading Building my Home Lab part 3: deploying the core infrastructure (hypervisor,firewall and router) →

Building my Home Lab part 2: Architecture

In the first part of my homelab upgrade series, we assembled the hardware for the homelab. Our next step is to design the network topology and come up with an appropriate network addressing scheme. We also need to have a rough idea of what we intend to do with the different network segments. The lab … Continue reading Building my Home Lab part 2: Architecture →