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Building Virtual Machine Labs: A Hands-On Guide
Virtualization is a skill that most IT or security pros take for granted. The sheer number of choices and requirements can be a daunting challenge to face for beginners and veterans alike.
With this book, you'll learn how to build robust, customizable virtual environments suitable for both a personal home lab, as well as a dedicated office training environment. You will learn how
- Understand the mechanics of virtualization and how they influence the design of your lab
- Build an extensive baseline lab environment on any one of five commonly used hypervisors (VMware vSphere Hypervisor, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, Oracle Virtualbox, and Microsoft Client Hyper-V)
- Harden your lab environment against VM escapes and other security threats
- Configure the pfSense firewall distribution to provide security, segmentation, and network services to your virtual lab
- Deploy either Snort or Suricata open-source IDS platforms in IPS mode to further enhance the flexibility, segmentation and security of your lab network
- Deploy Splunk as a log management solution for your lab
- Reconfigure the provided baseline lab environment to better suit your individual needs
Easy to follow steps and illustrations provide detailed, comprehensive guidance as you build your custom-tailored lab. Both IT and security professionals need practice environments to better hone their craft. Learn how to build and maintain your own with Building Flexible Virtual Machine Labs
With this book, you'll learn how to build robust, customizable virtual environments suitable for both a personal home lab, as well as a dedicated office training environment. You will learn how
- Understand the mechanics of virtualization and how they influence the design of your lab
- Build an extensive baseline lab environment on any one of five commonly used hypervisors (VMware vSphere Hypervisor, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation, Oracle Virtualbox, and Microsoft Client Hyper-V)
- Harden your lab environment against VM escapes and other security threats
- Configure the pfSense firewall distribution to provide security, segmentation, and network services to your virtual lab
- Deploy either Snort or Suricata open-source IDS platforms in IPS mode to further enhance the flexibility, segmentation and security of your lab network
- Deploy Splunk as a log management solution for your lab
- Reconfigure the provided baseline lab environment to better suit your individual needs
Easy to follow steps and illustrations provide detailed, comprehensive guidance as you build your custom-tailored lab. Both IT and security professionals need practice environments to better hone their craft. Learn how to build and maintain your own with Building Flexible Virtual Machine Labs
602 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 6, 2017
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Tony Robinson
234 books74 followersSir Tony Robinson is an English actor, comedian, amateur historian, TV presenter, author and political activist. He is known for playing "Baldrick" in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History.
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September 28, 2022
Enter the world of networks
I began skimming through this book to see if it could help me understand a field of I.T. I left for others to do--networking. What started as a curiosity is now a passion as Tony unveiled mysterious concepts by walking this newbie through just enough concrete guidance I needed to continue further on my own. Now that I have a comprehensive network lab virtualized on my notebook, I feel inspired to continue exploring as I once did 38 years ago in front of a new 8086. I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about networks but felt all alone without a budget to purchase expensive hardware and a mentor to bootstrap you into this fascinating area of I.T. Now you can have both by building a virtual network on a notebook and following the mentorship of Tony Robinson. Thanks for taking months of your time to share what you've learned and I commit to doing the same.
I began skimming through this book to see if it could help me understand a field of I.T. I left for others to do--networking. What started as a curiosity is now a passion as Tony unveiled mysterious concepts by walking this newbie through just enough concrete guidance I needed to continue further on my own. Now that I have a comprehensive network lab virtualized on my notebook, I feel inspired to continue exploring as I once did 38 years ago in front of a new 8086. I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about networks but felt all alone without a budget to purchase expensive hardware and a mentor to bootstrap you into this fascinating area of I.T. Now you can have both by building a virtual network on a notebook and following the mentorship of Tony Robinson. Thanks for taking months of your time to share what you've learned and I commit to doing the same.
May 27, 2020
Keep this Book Always
I have this book electronically, paperback, and memorized.
If you are looking for a practical lab idea, full with perspective and details—-Tony delivers.
I have this book electronically, paperback, and memorized.
If you are looking for a practical lab idea, full with perspective and details—-Tony delivers.
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