Building a Home IT Lab (2022)
2h 17mIntermediate2022-08-17
Authors
Scott Simpson
Creating Technology Courses as a Senior Staff Author at LinkedIn
Course details
Network and system administrators need somewhere to practice their skills, and a home lab is a great choice. In this course, Scott Simpson explains the advantages of a home lab and shows you how to plan and build your own. Scott shows you how to determine what kinds of configurations you’ll need and spec out the hardware needed to support them. He walks you through what services are offered by which kinds of products and explores virtualization options and other tools that are commonly used in home IT labs. Plus, Scott covers hands-on examples of building a basic lab with Type-1 and Type-2 hypervisors, as well as other common tools.
Skills covered
IT Service ManagementNetwork and System AdministrationOne-Off
Concepts
Introduction
- Building a home lab
- Why build a home lab
Designing 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
Type 1 Hypervisors
- 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
Type 2 Hypervisors
- Exploring VirtualBox
- Building a lab with VirtualBox
- Exploring VMware Workstation or Fusion
- Building a lab with VMware apps
Other Tools
- 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
Conclusion
- Next steps