Real hardware, four virtual machines, three security zones, one perimeter firewall. The full build, the artifacts, and a teaching guide so anyone can follow it.
Every artifact is open. Click into any card — the walkthrough is the textbook, the decks are how I present it, the screenshots are proof the lab actually runs.
~/Capstone-Guide/ folder. Linked here for completeness — mostly used as a desktop launcher during the build.A real Server+ capstone build, not a tutorial walkthrough. Hardware, networking, and operating systems — all in one box.
A single HPE ProLiant ML350p Gen8 server was set up from bare metal as a Proxmox VE hypervisor and configured to run four virtual machines arranged into three security zones:
The required path uses iptables on the Proxmox host for routing. The extra-credit path replaces those rules with a real pfSense firewall appliance on three NICs, mimicking how a small enterprise actually deploys perimeter security.
Every layer of a working server — hardware identification, RAID configuration, BIOS & firmware, hypervisor install, network segmentation, NAT & firewall rules, multiple operating systems, internal DNS, and remote access via Jump Box. Plus the documentation and presentation discipline to teach it to someone else.