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 a robust, customizable virtual environments suitable for both a personal home lab, as well as a dedicated office training environment. You will learn how to: - 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

虛擬化是大多數IT或安全專業人員視為理所當然的技能。對於初學者和老手來說，選擇和要求的數量可能是一個令人生畏的挑戰。這本書將教你如何建立一個強大、可定制的虛擬環境，適用於個人家庭實驗室和專用辦公室培訓環境。你將學習以下內容：
- 理解虛擬化的機制以及它們如何影響實驗室的設計
- 在五種常用的虛擬機監控器（VMware vSphere Hypervisor、VMware Fusion、VMware Workstation、Oracle Virtualbox和Microsoft Client Hyper-V）中建立一個廣泛的基準實驗室環境
- 加固實驗室環境，防止虛擬機逃逸和其他安全威脅
- 配置pfSense防火牆發行版，為虛擬實驗室提供安全性、分割和網絡服務
- 在IPS模式下部署Snort或Suricata開源IDS平台，進一步增強實驗室網絡的靈活性、分割和安全性
- 將Splunk配置為實驗室的日誌管理解決方案
- 根據個人需求重新配置提供的基準實驗室環境
這本書提供易於遵循的步驟和插圖，詳細全面地指導你建立定制的實驗室。IT和安全專業人員都需要實踐環境來更好地磨練他們的技能。學習如何建立和維護你自己的靈活虛擬機實驗室，請參考《建立靈活的虛擬機實驗室》。