While I’ve been out of the IT loop for quite a while now, I still have a home lab, that is in all fairness overdue for a refresh. If for no other reason than to lower the current server hardware’s power consumption.
This section will chronicle that transition from Hot Hard Iron servers, to virtualisation, using Proxmoxx and running as many services as I think wise in my own cloud infrastructure.
With the spreading of our family across multiple cities, and a desire to extend their access into our home network, I want to provide our kids with their own remote site possibilities, and also remote access to the servers and services they grew up with. So that is where we begin.
The program of work in this area will include:
- implement a new Firewall/Router using Open Source software
- Implement Pi-Hole blocking
- Update the network backbone from 1GB Ethernet to 2.5 Gb Ethernet, providing a dedicated backchannel management network for the NAS and Servers separate from the client network (using the current Gigabit Ethernet switches)
- build a High-Availability (HA) Proxmoxx cluster using ultra-low-power hardware
- creating a new domain infrastructure, using a Linux-based Active Directory Controller (TBD)
- Implement full SSL certs for the domain
- Move all the current clients over to the new DC structure
- Decommission all of our big-iron server hardware
- Recommission my inactive ODROID and Raspberry Pi SBCs back onto the new network in specific roles for use and testing
- Pay off the loan I’ll need to buy all the new hardware I’ve just talked about.
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