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Certification Homelab

How to build a full Network+ practice lab on a single ThinkPad using Proxmox VE — covering hypervisors, virtual networking, pfSense, DHCP, DNS, VLANs, and routing. No cloud account needed.

Building a Certification Homelab — Part 1: Proxmox and the Network+ Lab

How to build a full Network+ practice lab on a single ThinkPad using Proxmox VE — covering hypervisors, virtual networking, pfSense, DHCP, DNS, VLANs, and routing. No cloud account needed.

09-21-2026Complete

Building a Certification Homelab — Part 2: Security+ Lab and Beyond

Part 2 of the certification homelab series. Build a full Security+ practice environment — Security Onion, Kali Linux, Metasploitable, Windows Active Directory, and OpenVAS — all running on a single Proxmox host.

09-22-2026Complete
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