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Happy New Year!

3rd Week Touchups

While I am officially shifting away from the rigid 5-week sprint, I am still utilizing this time to ensure the foundation is fully operational before the next semester begins. T...

Changing Plans

With the holiday season in full swing, I’ve decided to spend the next few weeks focusing on family and secondary hobbies. As a result, I am adjusting the Vardhana Labs roadmap: ...

Week 1 Struggles

The Goal This week was supposed to be a routine infrastructure update. My objective was to migrate Vardhana Lab’s networking scheme from a standard home subnet (192.168.20.x) to...

The 5-Week Sprint

I did not post last week because I was pushing to finish all my college courses a week early. I had a specific reason for this: I am not using the 5-week winter break to rest. I...

Additional Cleanup

This week was also more of a cleaning up and making sure that all of my configurations and servers are all cleaned up since I have reached a good stable base system. Along with...

Cleanup Week

This week I decided it would be the perfect time to do some cleanup in my room. It was a pretty busy week but I wanted to ensure that all the cabling and all of my materials ar...

Creation of All Services

This week will be the start for all the services that I want to run for my enterprise and personal alike. There are also a few weeks left before the semester ends so I do not ha...

OPNsense Success!

I decided to retry configuring OPNsense this week and I succeeded. The answers to my old problems were relatively simple and with that I created 3 new VLANS and swapped around ...

OPNsense Setup and Struggles

This week was a large change for how I want to run my network, I have decided to go from my Edgerouter-4 router to a virtualized instance of OPNsense on my servers. There are a...

Fixing Proliant Fan Issue and 'Overheating' Problems

After a few weeks with my servers my current solution of running a cronjob every 10 minutes was not working the best. All my servers but 1 proliant are having the fan issue and...

Setup of Local AI with Internet Access

This week I decided that I wanted to setup a local AI on my desktop which has a NVIDIA 3090ti, 32GB DDR4 and an Intel i9-13900k running Fedora Workstation. My plan is to run thi...

Wireguard Peers and UPS Tests

This week I added an additional wireguard peer as well as running a few UPS tests which most failed and some have succeeded. For the time being I decided to add my friend’s hom...

Wireguard and UPS Setup

This week I have setup a Wireguard VPN for my laptop to my home network as well as setup the Network Utilities Tools Server to monitor the UPS for my servers. I decided to use ...

Pterodactyl Setup

This weekend I setup 2 VMs on my cluster. One VM is used for the pterodactyl panel and the other is used for the pterodactyl game node. Pterodactyl is an open-source game mana...

Full Homelab Setup

This weekend I finished the basic setup of my new homelab! Using the 4 C6100 nodes I made a 3-way hyper-redundant Ceph cluster. This means of my 24TB Raw storage I now have 8TB...

Initial HomeLab Setup

Now that all the materials I bought have arrived I can begin the full construction of my homelab. I will also begin with weekly homelab updates to my blog every Sunday, explain...

Initial HomeLab Purchases

With the money I earned from my Internship I will be buying a list of items for my homelab. I currently have a C6100 server and 2 Proliant DL360p Gen8 servers that each have 25...

How my IT Operations Internship Went

July 25th, was the graduation day of my IT Internship where I had to present a capstone presentation on how the internship went here are some highlights of what I learned:   ...

The Start of my 3rd Semester BTC and Senior HS Year

Today was the start of my 3rd Semester BTC program. I am currently taking the Technical Support Specialist Associate of Applied Science program. This semester along with Pre-Cal...

This site is Live!

Now that the site is live there are alot of exciting things to be expecting like writups on the different things I do as well as well as anything that interests me!