Want to practice your IT skills without disrupting service in your work environment? Learn how to build a home IT lab that gives you the space you need to refine your skills.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Building a home lab
- Why build a home lab?
- What roles do you need to support?
- Native vs. virtual machines vs. containers
- How should the network be configured?
- Lab management and documentation
- Planning resources
- Home lab hardware
- Using VirtualBox to create a virtual lab
- Exploring VMware Workstation and Fusion
- Using Hyper-V to create a virtual lab
- Exploring QEMU and KVM for a home lab
- Using FreeNAS in a home lab
- Exploring ESXi for use in a home lab
- Building a home lab with Proxmox
- Using LXC containers in a home lab
- Next steps
Taught by
Scott Simpson
