The purpose of this document is to describe in necessary detail the current project description to represent a suitable model generating Conceptual, Logical and Physical designs for HomeLab.
The Conceptual Design presents the proposed structure of the datacenter transformation project, such as the requirements, assumptions and risks involved.
The Logical Design is based on the conceptual design, and provides a more detailed view of the components and relationships.
This in turn results in a Physical Design that can be used to build the entire stack of services.
There was a need to move away from Microsoft Windows based services for Directory, File, DNS and DHCP services, simply because those requires licenses that are soon to be unavailable. It is also imperative that no new HW is to be purchased, and the new design needs to be able to run on existing infrastructure.
A secondary reason to move away from the existing infrastructure, is to become more proficient in deploying infrastructure services based on open source and Linux.
By developing the documentation in this manner, the idea is for it to work as an exercise in writing enterprise design documents.
Participants
The people listed in the following table provided key input into this design:
| Name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Christian Mohn | christian@drible.net | Owner |
Version History
| Date | Revision | Author | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14.07.2016 | 0.0.1 | CM | Initial Checkin |
| 14.07.2016 | 0.0.2 | CM | Sectioned into several documents / re-organized a bit |
| 16.07.2016 | 0.0.3 | CM | Diagrams and Naming Standard added. |
| 09.08.2016 | 0.0.4 | CM | External Dynamic DNS Service section |
| 10.10.2016 | 0.0.5 | CM | External IPAM, VPN/Jumphost and HAProxy section (Combined VPN/Jumphost in one section) |
| 10.10.2016 | 0.0.6 | CM | Added File Services section. Merged File Services and Shared Media Storage in to File services. Added Plex Media Server as an required service. Added Log Insight link under Log Management Solution / "Nice to have services" |
#Linked documents
- Requirements, Constraints, Assumptions and Risks
- Configuration
- Diagrams
- Existing Hardware
- External Resources
- Operational Resources
- External Dynamic DNS
- IPAM
- HAProxy
- DHCP / DNS
- External Dynamic DNS
- Remote Access / VPN
- File services
- IP Address Management
- Reverse proxying of incoming http and https requests
- Plex Media Server
- Directory Services
- PXE boot for LAB network
- Automated requests for IP addresses (static) from IPAM
- Local management interface list ala JumpSquares
- Log management solution