Lab Projects
IT Support Simulation Lab
- Built a small virtualized Windows network simulation (QEMU/KVM on Linux host), featuring Windows Server 2022 and Windows 10 Enterprise clients, and a headless Debian 12 router
- Practiced IT support tools: Active Directory, Group Policy (GPOs), ServiceNow ticketing, and Remote Desktop (RDP)
- Simulated tech support scenarios: password resets; account management; network and permissions issues, etc.
Virtual Network Lab
- Deployed a virtualized network using Debian, Ubuntu Server, and Windows 10 virtual machines on an isolated internal LAN (QEMU/KVM)
- Configured a custom Debian 12 router VM with NAT, DHCP, DNS, and firewalling using nftables
- Implemented cross-platform file sharing with Samba (Windows) and NFS (Linux)
- Deployed Dockerized Prometheus and Grafana stack for monitoring across infrastructure nodes
Home Linux Fileserver
- Assembled a fully operational Debian-based server from unused legacy hardware
- Configured NFS and Samba to share files to Linux and Windows devices
- Configured SSH key-only authorization
- Set up persistent mounting of remote filesystem on personal machine using systemd