Welcome to the lab overview.
So before we build our lab there are a few things that I wanted to cover and that is what the lab is
going to look like.
So our lab is going to consist of 1 Windows Server 20 19 and then two windows 10 enterprise machines
if we think about this and we think about this in a virtualize environment.
We have some minimum requirements we're gonna have to use for one when we run ISOs or we run machines.
We need this space on top of that.
We need RAM and to build this lab effectively.
We need about 60 gigabytes of disk base and 16 gigabytes of RAM.
I am utilizing much more than that in this course.
I'm using 32 gigabytes of RAM when I do this.
So here's how it should work.
We're going to have a Cally machine our attack machine and then we're going to have these three other
machines.
Now you might utilize two gigabytes of RAM for each.
So two gigs on Kelly two gigs on the Windows Server and then two gigs on each Windows 10 enterprise
machine that will give you about eight gigs a RAM usage not including anything else that you're running.
Meaning your base OS or any of that.
So please keep in mind that you need at least 16 gigabytes of RAM for this course to be effective if
you have more than that.
That's great.
You can start assigning maybe like four gigs if you want to each machine.
I'm really going to assign two just to keep it to the bare minimum on speed requirements.
And if you do not meet the requirements which I completely understand not everybody has a 16 gigabytes
of RAM in their computer right.
That's OK.
Please follow along.
Take notes.
Take screenshots.
Download the tools.
Play around with them and understand them there's still going to be examples with some hack of ox machines
that we encounter later on in the course that's going to allow us to utilize some of these attacks.
And you can play around with those and you still can understand what's going on even if you can't do
it hands on fully.
I understand this is a limitation but this is also a good time.
If you've never built a lab and you do have these requirements to build out this lab to fully understand
it if you need something you can go out and purchase a cheap server.
They have a bunch of those on eBay and build our ISOs to these requirements as well.
But for me I'm just running with enough disk space and enough RAM to actually be functional.
And again if you don't have the requirements do not stress out about it.
There are plenty of people who have done similar build with me before and they didn't have the requirements
and they still learned a lot.
So please just consume the information that is about to be presented to you and understand what we're
building why we're building it.
What we're attacking and why we're attacking it and you're going to kill it in your job interview I
promise you.
So from here let's go ahead and start downloading our files that we need and let's start building out
this lab.