06/01/2023 – present
Key Technologies
- Virtualization – Proxmox 7.4-18
- Firewall – PFSense 2.7.2-RELEASE (amd64) FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT
- Routing – ATT Fiber BG-320
- Network Bridging and static IP pass-through – Proxmox 7.4-18
- Network Attached Storage – TrueNAS Scale Dragonfish-24.04.2 (Linux)
- Linux and FreeBSD
- Servers and Network Access.
Accomplishments
- Implemented level 1 bare metal hypervisor using Proxmox 7.4 based on Debian to deploy and manage virtual machines serving my network.
- Configured and Deployed Virtual Firewall using PFSense by Netgate to manage and secure my home and lab networks from a single pane of glass.
- Configured separate network interface cards on the system to ensure management traffic is always available to the host server, preventing critical downtime in the case of a firewall outage or misconfiguration.
- Utilized IP pass-through to ensure that all traffic on WAN address securely enters and exits through the firewall.
- Configured and deployed Network Attached Storage server on my host using TrueNAS Scale as a virtualized storage solution, providing my network and devices with redundancy and additional data storage.