Overview

Provide a brief summary of the home lab build. What is the primary purpose? (e.g., Malware Analysis, Active Directory Penetration Testing, Blue Team Monitoring).

Always ensure your vulnerable VMs are completely isolated from your actual home network to prevent accidental infections!

Hardware Specifications

Detail the physical or cloud hardware used for this lab environment.

Component Specification Purpose
CPU AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Hypervisor Host Processing
RAM 64GB DDR4 Running multiple VMs simultaneously
Storage 2TB NVMe SSD Fast read/write for Virtual Disks
Network Dedicated NIC Isolated lab routing and pfSense

Network Architecture

Explain how the virtual network is segmented. For example, setting up pfSense as a boundary firewall with strict rules.

Tip: You can use Draw.io to create network diagrams and embed them as images here!

Deployment Steps

  1. Hypervisor Installation: Installed Proxmox VE or ESXi.
  2. Firewall Configuration: Deployed pfSense with WAN/LAN interfaces and DHCP.
  3. Domain Controller Setup: Created lab.local using Windows Server 2022.
  4. Vulnerable Hosts: Stood up Metasploitable3 and a vulnerable Windows 10 client.

For more information on virtualization technologies, refer to the Wikipedia page on Hypervisors.