KrishAdmin-HQ

KrishAdmin-HQ Server Closet

Get to know my Servers

KrishAdmin-HQ is my lime-green mini-datacenter built entirely on AMD silicon, dedicated to lab work for our virtualization-validation team. Compact enough to fit in a closet, yet powerful enough to heat it in winter, it averages 30 °C in winter and 34 °C in summer, drawing about 230 W idle and peaking near 900 W when I’m gaming and friends are using the AI server. The lab mirrors a production-grade environment for GPU passthrough and real-world workloads.

Gaming / VM Tower

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4070 Super
RAM: 32 GB DDR5
Storage: 2× M.2 SSDs (apps/games) + 1× HDD (large games)
Networking: 2.5 GbE
PSU: 850 W

Primary Proxmox / AI Node

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4060 Ti (passthrough)
RAM: 192 GB DDR5
Storage: 3× M.2 SSDs
Networking: 10 GbE + 2.5 GbE
PSU: 1200 W
PiKVM remote management

Rack Proxmox TrueNAS Node

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
RAM: 64 GB DDR4
Storage: 20 TB HDD (TrueNAS) + 2× M.2 SSDs
Networking: 2.5 GbE
PSU: 750 W
PiKVM remote management

Additional Nodes

Synology DS220+ (4 TB + 1 TB drives)
Dell Laptop (3rd Proxmox node)

Virtualization & Services

Proxmox cluster with TrueNAS NFS backend. Key VMs/containers: Uptime Kuma, Nginx Proxy Manager (backup node), Home Assistant, Kubernetes, GitLab, Cloudflared, and an AI server for local LLMs. GPUs are configured for full passthrough (SR-IOV planned). Twingate nodes run on all hosts for redundant remote access.

Networking

UniFi UDM Pro with multiple VLANs to multirate 1/2.5/10 GbE switching plus Cisco Catalyst PoE feeding UniFi AP. Remote access: Twingate primary with ZeroTier fallback.

Storage & Backups

Synology syncs home laptops/handhelds. TrueNAS provides shared storage for VMs/containers. Two UPS units split load and importance with graceful, UPS-triggered shutdown.

Monitoring & Reliability

A 3-node Raspberry Pi cluster runs Nginx Proxy Manager, networking services, and Uptime Kuma for the lab. A Pi Zero 2 W runs a lightweight Uptime Kuma to monitor a friend’s setup (Cerfmetal to KrishAdmin-HQ).

UPS

APC Back-UPS 1500VA APC Smart-UPS 1500VA

Security

Zero-trust with Twingate. Public endpoints tunnel via Cloudflared with no open ports.

Twingate Cloudflared

Server Uses This section highlights how I use my servers as part of KrishAdmin-HQ. From hosting competitive and experimental projects to powering virtualized test environments. It’s equally capable of running productivity tools, storage synchronization, and leisure services, all on the same rock-solid infrastructure.

Synology Server

To the left is the website that I use to access my Server. It is on this same server where this portfolio website is hosted along with many more including Gooselator and Covid Cage. Click below to learn more.

Link Not Public

Personal Portfolio

This site that I have coded also took a lot of time to edit and perfect. It exists to show some of the projects I have worked on in the past, and so you can get to know me a little better.

Link to Portfolio

Gooselator

This was my first competitive project done at the Ryerson Engineering Competition in 2021. Our task was to create a translator that converts English to aboriginal languages and vice-versa.

Link to Gooselator