The building

Projects & Labs

These are written as case studies rather than portfolio pieces: the problem that started it, the design decisions and trade-offs, what actually got built, and what I'd do differently. Some are production work (anonymized), some live in the home lab.

ongoing

Enterprise Storage for an Apartment: Home Assistant on Two-Node vSAN ESA

I run IKEA lights through Home Assistant on a two-node vSAN ESA cluster, with a witness in my main lab, redundant 10GbE point-to-point links, and a frankly unreasonable amount of availability for an apartment.

ESXi 8
vSAN ESA
Home Assistant
vSAN Witness
10GbE