Explore how to plan and build your own home lab to practice your IT administration 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
- Exploring Hyper-V
- Building a lab with Hyper-V
- Exploring ESXi
- Installing ESXi
- Building a lab with ESXi
- Exploring Proxmox Virtual Environment
- Installing Proxmox Virtual Environment
- Building a lab with Proxmox Virtual Environment
- Exploring QEMU and KVM
- Building a lab with QEMU and KVM
- Exploring VirtualBox
- Building a lab with VirtualBox
- Exploring VMware Workstation or Fusion
- Building a lab with VMware apps
- Exploring TrueNAS CORE
- Installing TrueNAS CORE
- Using TrueNAS CORE
- Exploring LXC containers
- Building a lab with LXC containers
- Exploring Docker
- Building a lab with Docker
- Next steps
Taught by
Scott Simpson
