Home Lab

[Scotteh]

For those who have their own home lab, what do you run in them?

I've just started piecing mine together and currently have ESXi 6.0U2 running Nagios, SQL host and Syslog with plans to add Grafana, FreePBX, mail server for sending out alerts, Windows VM for DNS/DHCP and generally a 'management' box.

I have a FreeNAS server (MicroServer) which is just acting as backup and an iSCSI repository for ISO's.

Ideally I want to get the above set up then start looking into security tools for work (kali/security onion/etc) but want to isolate the network a bit before then so hoping to pick up something like an ASA 5505/5510 soon.

Ideally my network would be split into LAN, WiFi, Demo/Security, and possibly some other networks for testing when I come to doing Cisco Certs (looking to get some Cisco certs and Security certs done in early 2017).

So what do you have in your network?

 

[Scotteh]

I run pfense to provide VLAN isolation, you can install plugins-modules for all sorts of security tasks. A list which can be found here:
https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Features_List

Great free product, 10 out 10 from me

What do you run it on?

I'm considering this rather than something like a 5505, not sure what to run it on though as I wouldn't really want it ran on an old re-purposed PC as it'll be power hungry.