Technical source document

Validated On-Premises Home Lab Evidence — June 21, 2026

Rendered from the retained public repository snapshot. Original wording and result boundaries are preserved.

Validated On-Premises Home Lab Evidence — June 21, 2026

This historical public set supports the On-Prem Home Lab case study with reviewed command output, screenshots, integrity records, and an earlier Word validation document. Current reviewers should use the current professional documentation linked below.

Current document

Validation status

  • Status: validated within the limits documented below
  • Collection and validation date: June 21, 2026
  • Environment: personal nonproduction home lab
  • Physical host: one Dell PowerEdge R710
  • Hypervisor: Proxmox VE
  • Primary VMs: pfSense VM 100, DC01 VM 200, WS01 VM 300, and Linux01 VM 400

Historical document

  • Title: On-Premises Home Lab Infrastructure Validation
  • Public file: ../jeremy-fontenot-on-premises-home-lab-validation-2026-06-21.docx
  • Status: historical compatibility copy; use the current document above for public review.
  • Size: 1,400,031 bytes
  • SHA-256: 03a605517e2a6ebeb805b7e0f74bd1ec06c664debbdb39b99e09aecc62e4845a

Archive integrity

  • Complete evidence archive SHA-256: e8a5a40a6960557383ccb152af2da71053e50382d8287d632b9ed5ad85cb7060
  • Embedded Linux01 archive SHA-256: 5c1eff369a0055338808a93c025847cc5997db4f04614a56ede33b43f9e9b8db

Evidence categories

  • Proxmox host, storage, bridge, VM, all-four-VM snapshot, and scheduled-backup validation
  • Windows Server 2022, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policy screenshots
  • Linux01 system, DNS, SSSD, Kerberos, SSH, UFW, sudo, guest-agent, and backup records
  • Evidence packaging, SCP transfer, and SHA-256 verification

The machine-readable manifest.json, reviewer-oriented manifest.csv, sanitized text files, and captioned screenshots provide the public review path.

Limitations

  • Archive presence does not prove a successful application-level restore.
  • Snapshot presence is not an independent backup.
  • Exclusive firewall-source restriction was not independently tested.
  • The lab uses one domain controller and is not designed for production availability.

See redaction-log.md for exclusions and privacy decisions.