The first time shouldn’t be on the job.

A student knows the concept. Then a real system raises a new question. With guidance, practice, and room to try again, they build experience they can carry into the workplace.

BUILT BY

Chidinma Agwu, educator

ROLE

Sole designer, builder and operator

SCOPE

Bridging the gap between coursework and the job

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What a student leaves with

Students learn by working through practical scenarios with guidance and feedback. Along the way, they build evidence of their thinking and practice explaining what they found.

01 IN THE LAB

Practice with guidance

Real systems, useful questions, and instructor support as students learn to investigate.

02 THE ARTIFACT

Build a record of the work

Students practice turning evidence into clear investigation notes and reports, with feedback to strengthen their reasoning.

03 BEYOND THE LAB

Explain the decisions

Build experience to draw on in interviews and at work: what they observed, what they tried, and why.

THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE →

What the environment is made of

The environment runs on a dedicated custom-built virtualization host. It brings together networking, identity, certificate services, monitoring, and student systems. The lab evolves continually, with new scenarios and capabilities shaped by what students need to practice.

Illustration of the MutaSpace PC. Numbered buttons identify its seven hardware components.

Click a marker — seven components, and what each one carries. HYPERVISOR · PROXMOX VE

02 PROCESSOR

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

12 cores · 24 threads

Proxmox schedules the virtual machines across the processor’s available resources. Identity, monitoring, application servers, and student desktops share this physical host.

CARRIES

Compute for the host and virtual machines

EXPLORE THE ENVIRONMENT →

Arctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360

Liquid cooling carries heat from the processor to a 360 mm radiator. It supports sustained workloads while multiple lab systems share the host.

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Proxmox schedules the virtual machines across the processor’s available resources. Identity, monitoring, application servers, and student desktops share this physical host.

64 GB DDR5

Each running virtual machine needs memory. The 64 GB pool is allocated across infrastructure, monitoring, and student systems as the workload changes.

2 TB NVMe SSD

NVMe storage holds the host installation, virtual disks, and reusable lab images. Templates and cloning support repeatable student environments.

B650 AORUS Elite AX

The motherboard connects compute, memory, storage, and networking. Its expansion options give the lab room to develop as teaching and investigation needs grow.

Corsair 3500X

The case houses the build and supports cooling, cable routing, and maintenance. The glass panels make the physical components easier to see and explain.

MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 850W

The power supply converts wall power for the host components. This single-host design provides a practical setting for discussing availability, backups, and future expansion.

CPU and NVMe markers indicate concealed components. Illustration positions are approximate.

03 / BUILT WITH PURPOSE

Engineering, documented.

Designed and built by Chidinma Agwu as part of MutaSpace’s commitment to practical technology and cybersecurity education.

This environment brings infrastructure, identity, monitoring, and instruction together. The public build guide records the technical work behind it.

Explore the technical build guide ↗