Lab overview and technologies
Building a personal lab environment enables you to explore and improve your technical skills without the need to acquire expensive hardware or pay for a subscription service. A personal lab environment provides a lot of scalability and flexibility options such as enabling you to add and remove systems as needed based on your learning objectives and goals. For instance, by leveraging the power of virtualization technologies, you can create an entire virtual network with multiple virtual machines running on your personal computer without any hidden expenses or need for physical hardware components.
To better understand the components that are needed for our lab environment, let’s take a look at the role and function of each major component:
- Hypervisor – The hypervisor will enable you to create virtualized environments for installing and running multiple operating systems simultaneously on top of your existing hardware on your personal...
