Welcome to HamLab — my personal homelab and testing platform for cybersecurity projects, development, and experimentation. It's a serious setup that's evolved into a full-scale infrastructure for learning, testing, and hosting services.
The Infrastructure
The lab currently runs ESXi 8.0 with vCenter across a cluster of 5 EPYC servers featuring a combined 512GB of DDR4 RAM and a pooled total of 100TB of storage. This gives me plenty of resources to spin up virtual machines, test configurations, and run production-grade services.
I'm running Rancher for managing a K3s Kubernetes cluster and Wazuh as my SIEM solution, with agents deployed across multiple VMs to monitor security events and system health.
Network Design
All Ethernet ports throughout the house terminate at this central location. I personally wired the infrastructure, including two WiFi 7 access points connected to Ubiquiti networking gear for PoE support. This allows devices to connect either wirelessly or directly into the network stack.
For security, the network is segmented: household users connect to a public-facing WiFi and VLAN, while the cluster operates on a separate, isolated network. This segregation ensures that experimental work and sensitive infrastructure remain protected from the general network traffic.