When it comes to hosting a lab, there is one question which is very basic, very urgent and very obvious: can we do this in the cloud? It does not matter much, if the company you work for has a cloud-first attitude or it is your personal choice to prefer…
Read more →In the previous article, I wrote about the hardware, now it is time to introduce the hypervisor. This lab is hosted on Citrix XenServer, for free. Over the years, I tried many different hypervisor (exotic ones like Bochs or Virtuozzo), VMWare Workstation and Virtual Box, Virtual PC, Hyper-V and actually…
Read more →The complete lab is hosted on a rented server from www.hetzner.de, featuring: The server was in an auction, where machines (sometimes containing additional extras like a few harddrives more) are constantly dropping in price, getting cheaper and cheaper every day. But watch out - you might miss to get the…
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