Status: Fully_Operational
Lab_Overview
The_Origin_Story
What started as a single Optiplex 7040 under a desk has evolved into a multi-node Proxmox Cluster. My lab serves as the testing ground for every deployment I manage professionally, allowing me to "break things in private" before they ever hit production.
// The Early Days
Focused on basic file sharing and media hosting. It taught me the fundamentals of Linux permissions, static IPs, and the hard lesson that RAID is not a backup.
// The Pivot to PVE
Transitioning to Proxmox allowed for rapid virtualization and LXC containers, mirroring the enterprise-grade architectures I manage daily.