For IT pros, I think that the home lab has been one of the most critical tools to allow us to further our professional careers, prepare for certifications and go into the workplace with confidence.

When it comes to virtualization tools and home lab utilities, you’ll probably assume the OS powering the host is some flavor of Linux. In some rare cases, you’d hear about FreeBSD serving as the ...

Although designed to act as a home/small business file and back-up repository, Tom thinks its specs might allow it to work a storage server for virtualization for a small home lab. In previous ...

An idea being floated around at the office is to create a server lab for virtualization, to experiment with various hypervisors (Xen, ESX, HyperV, SunxVM). I've been doing some work on virtualization, ...

Network virtualization platforms enable users to build working models of networks, in some cases many months before the physical networks are deployed. The simulation enables the operations staff to ...