Welcome to Abdel's World

My Homelab
Infrastructure.

A hands-on infrastructure playground — VLANs, virtualization, self-hosted services, and a whole lot of troubleshooting. Built to learn. Kept running because it's fun.

Proxmox UDM Pro TrueNAS SCALE UniFi Docker FortiGate WireGuard
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Rack open
Live Network Topology · Edmonton
ISP Shaw UDM Pro Gateway USW Pro Max 16 PoE FortiGate 60F Proxmox DL360 Gen10 TrueNAS SCALE Workstation Win 11 UniFi AP Wi-Fi 6
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Physical Devices
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VLANs
9
Running Services
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Uptime Target
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Homelab
Physical rack, hardware photos and the full software stack powering the lab.
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Network
VLAN segmentation, firewall zones and the full network design.
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Services
Self-hosted apps running on Docker — Jellyfin, NPM, WireGuard, and more.
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About
NAIT NET grad, Jason Lang Scholar, trilingual, open to IT roles in Edmonton.
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Infrastructure

The Hardware Stack

Everything running in the rack and on the desk — physical and virtual, managed and monitored.

DuraRak homelab rack
DuraRak — The Physical RackFortiGate 60F, USW Pro Max, UDM Pro & HP DL360 Gen10
Rack open view close-up
Rack — Open ViewUSW Pro Max, FortiGate 60F, TrueNAS, HP DL360 Gen10 & Dell PowerEdge
UDM Dashboard
UDM Pro — Network DashboardLive traffic, latency, top clients & app usage
Network Topology
Network TopologyShaw → UDM Pro → 16 wired clients including TrueNAS, DESKTOP, Xbox
VLANs
VLANs & NetworksMain (VLAN 1) and HomeNetwork (VLAN 5) with DHCP & WAN config
Firewall Zones
Firewall Zones & Policies65 firewall policies — Internal, External, Gateway, VPN, DMZ
Proxmox VE Dashboard
Proxmox VE 9.1.2 — Datacenter5 VMs running · lxc, qemu & storage nodes · 33 day uptime · community scripts
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HP ProLiant DL360 Gen10
Primary hypervisor running Proxmox VE. Hosts VMs for labs, testing, and self-hosted services.
Proxmox VE
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UniFi Dream Machine Pro
Main gateway and security appliance. Handles routing, firewall, IDS/IPS, and VPN termination.
Gateway · IDS/IPS
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USW Pro Max 16 PoE
Managed switch with SFP28 uplinks. Handles all VLAN trunking and PoE for APs.
Managed · VLAN
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FortiGate 60F
Secondary firewall for segmented lab environments and testing UTM/NGFW policy configurations.
NGFW · UTM
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TrueNAS SCALE
NAS running ZFS pools for media storage, backups, and Jellyfin media server with GPU transcoding.
ZFS · NAS
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UniFi APs
Managed wireless access points with per-SSID VLAN assignment for seamless coverage.
Wi-Fi 6 · UniFi
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NVIDIA T1000 GPU
Low-profile Turing GPU passed through to TrueNAS for hardware-accelerated Jellyfin transcoding.
GPU Passthrough
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WireGuard VPN
Remote access into the lab from anywhere, plus AirVPN for egress privacy on selected traffic.
VPN · AirVPN
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Raspberry Pi 5
Low-power ARM SBC running lightweight services and network utilities at the edge of the lab.
ARM · SBC
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Dell PowerEdge R720
Secondary rack server used for additional VM workloads and lab testing alongside the HP DL360 Gen10.
Server · 2U
TrueNAS SCALE Dashboard
TrueNAS SCALE — Dashboard125.5 GiB · Intel Xeon Silver · ZFS pools online · 13 day uptime
TrueNAS SCALE Apps
TrueNAS SCALE — Installed Appscloudflared, Dockge, Jellyfin, Nextcloud, NPM, Homarr & more
Homarr Service Dashboard
Homarr — Service DashboardTrueNAS, Sonarr, Radarr, Proxmox, iDRAC, FortiGate, Ubiquity & more
Nginx Proxy Manager Hosts
Nginx Proxy Manager — Proxy Hosts9 active proxy hosts · Let's Encrypt SSL · All online

Network Segmentation

VLAN Design

Strict segmentation between trusted, IoT, lab, and management traffic — firewall rules enforced at the gateway.

VLAN IDNameSubnetPurposeAccess
1Main192.168.x.0/24Primary network — UDM Pro routed, DHCP serverFull (trusted)
5HomeNetwork192.168.x.0/24Secondary home segment, isolated from MainDHCP · Internet
10Management10.10.10.0/24Network gear, UDM Pro, switch managementAdmin only
30Lab / VMs10.10.30.0/24Proxmox VMs, testing, Hyper-V clusterIsolated
40IoT10.10.40.0/24Smart home, cameras, untrusted devicesNo LAN access
50Servers10.10.50.0/24TrueNAS, Jellyfin, Docker servicesAllow from Trusted
99Guest10.10.99.0/24Guest Wi-Fi — isolated, internet onlyInternet only

Firewall Zones

Zone Matrix

UniFi Zone-Based Firewall with 65 active policies covering Internal, External, Gateway, VPN, Hotspot, and DMZ zones.

VLAN config
Networks & VLANsUDM Pro network overview — Main, HomeNetwork, WAN, port forwarding
Firewall zones
Firewall Zone MatrixZone policy grid — Allow Return, Allow All, Block All per zone pair
Topology
Live TopologyShaw → UDM Pro → all connected wired & wireless clients
TrueNAS SCALE Dashboard
TrueNAS SCALE — Dashboard125.5 GiB · Intel Xeon Silver · ZFS pools online · 13 day uptime
TrueNAS SCALE Apps
TrueNAS SCALE — Installed Appscloudflared, Dockge, Jellyfin, Nextcloud, NPM, Homarr & more
Homarr Service Dashboard
Homarr — Service DashboardTrueNAS, Sonarr, Radarr, Proxmox, iDRAC, FortiGate, Ubiquity & more
Nginx Proxy Manager Hosts
Nginx Proxy Manager — Proxy Hosts9 active proxy hosts · Let's Encrypt SSL · All online

Self-Hosted

Running Services

All self-hosted, containerized where possible — managed through Dockge and proxied via Nginx Proxy Manager.

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Nginx Proxy Manager
Reverse proxy for all internal services with SSL termination via Let's Encrypt.
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Dockge
Docker compose stack manager with a clean UI. Manages all containerized services.
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Cloudflare Tunnel
Secure public exposure of selected services without opening inbound firewall ports.
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WireGuard
VPN server for secure remote access into the homelab from anywhere.
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Hyper-V Cluster
Two-node Hyper-V Failover Cluster with StarWind vSAN for HA lab workloads.
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NAKIVO Backup
VM backup and replication protecting Hyper-V and Proxmox workloads.
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Filebrowser
Self-hosted web file manager for browsing, uploading and managing files on TrueNAS.
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Nextcloud
Private cloud storage for files, contacts and calendar sync — self-hosted alternative to Google Drive.
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Obsidian (Self-hosted)
Personal knowledge base with self-hosted sync for notes and documentation across devices.

About

The Person Behind the Rack

I'm Abdel, a Network Engineering Technology graduate from NAIT (April 2026), based in Edmonton, Alberta. I built this homelab as an extension of my studies — a real environment to break things, fix them, and learn what textbooks can't teach.

From deploying a two-node Hyper-V failover cluster to migrating from FortiGate to UniFi and debugging inter-VLAN routing at 11pm — the lab has taught me more than any certification prep ever could.

I speak English, Arabic, and French, and I'm currently looking for my first full-time IT role in help desk, deskside support, or networking. If you're hiring, let's talk.

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Abdel
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Network Engineering Technology
NAIT Diploma · Graduated April 2026
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IT Internship
Conseil Scolaire Centre-Nord
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Trilingual
English · Arabic · French