From the course: Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range
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Introducing Proxmox and deploying VMs and containers
From the course: Building the Ultimate Cybersecurity Lab and Cyber Range
Introducing Proxmox and deploying VMs and containers
- So I've been mentioning Proxmox throughout the course, but I haven't introduced it really, right? So what you're seeing in the screen is actually Proxmox. It's a virtualized environment that is extensible. It can scale very, very well. And as a matter of fact, I have a cluster of different machines, bare metal machines, that I'm going to go over in a few seconds. But if you compare these to things like VMware, this allows you to deploy a very scalable environment at home or at work that is free. Now you have different options for support that there are subscription options that we'll we'll cover in a second, but you can actually deploy these for free in your home. As a matter of fact, that's what I do here. As you can tell, I'm a Proxmox fanboy because one not only it's free, but it's actually very, very powerful. You can run different VMs. You can run containers. You can, it has an API. You can also run things like Ceph and ZFS and then scale very easily. So if you want to add more…