My name is Maarten Van Driessen, I'm a freelance infrastructure consultant and I'm a homelab addict.

A bit about myself, I started working in IT back in December of 2009. It was a servicedesk job but it gave me a lot of useful skills. In 2011 I moved into a support engineer role where I had to do everything for SMBs in Belgium. That was actually one of the jobs where I learnt the most. It forced me to figure stuff out because there wasn't really anyone to ask for help.

I've always tinkered around with computers, but for some reason when I made it my job that kind of died down. I first got back into homelabbing in 2014 when I started learning about vSphere and wanted to get to know the product. Due to personal reasons I had to sell it a couple of years later and it kind of died down again.

Fast forward to 2021 and I decided to pull the trigger again and purchase something that could be called a production worthy setup. As a freelancer, I need to pay for my own training. i didn't really look forward to dishing out large amounts of cash to training centers because that's not the way I learn the best.