Hello all!
One of the things I have learned over the years is that nothing beats hands on training.
Before I describe my environment, let me introduce you to the rabbit hole I started my career with. When I was younger, I started to get into web pages. Who didn’t get into web pages in the late 90’s?! I used Angelfire, Geocities, and those “free” web pages that your ISP would give you. Needless to say it got me thinking about basic languages like HTML. Then a couple years later the bug started. I’m writing these web pages in html but..how does one get to this web page? How can I change the URL? What is this DNS madness and the Internet Protocol? That’s when things got interesting and well, I’ve been trying to simulate on a small scale of how all of these services are interconnected.
“I test in production.”
You can’t get much more of a production environment when you have everything set up for your family.
I run two VMware 6.7 ESXi servers. They are installed on two HP DL 380’s. They are only generation 7’s so don’t get too excited! I have a synology with 20TB providing shares for varies reasons but mostly as a NFS share for my esxi servers. I have three Access points strategically placed around my house. All of these devices are connected to a cisco catalyst switch. It’s a layer 3 switch but no license to really do layer switch routing. I use it as a layer 2 switch and it does the job.
I have a production environment, a Video / multimedia environment and a guest / dmz environment. Each environment is separated both logically and physically.
I intend to give more information for each of these environments and what purposes they use.