Designing a Production Network and Cisco Lab in One Rack
A practical look at separating production services from lab gear while sharing space, power, cabling, and documentation inside one compact rack.
Technical Journal
Infrastructure Notes
A living technical journal documenting the design, buildout, and evolution of my home network, lab environment, and deployable infrastructure stack.
Field Notes
Practical documentation from real infrastructure work.
These posts will cover real-world networking, rack planning, VLAN design, monitoring, UPS integration, OPNsense, Omada, Cisco lab work, and the lessons learned while turning home infrastructure into a reliable, documented platform.
Post Queue
Upcoming technical notes.
Why I'm Moving Core Services to a Raspberry Pi
Notes on shifting DNS, monitoring, and lightweight infrastructure services onto a dedicated low-power node for cleaner operations.
Planning UPS Protection for Brownouts and Graceful Shutdowns
How UPS sizing, runtime targets, alerting, and shutdown sequencing fit into a resilient home infrastructure stack.
Choosing a Managed Switch for a Home Infrastructure Stack
A decision framework for VLAN support, PoE budget, port count, management model, and lab expansion capacity.
Documenting My CCNA Journey Through Real Infrastructure
Using a working network and lab equipment to connect CCNA concepts with practical routing, switching, troubleshooting, and change control.