Chapter 1: Using Virtualization

This first chapter touches on the relevance of virtualization and the importance of familiarizing yourself with the different flavors, including VirtualBox, Hyper-V, KVM, VMware, and more. However, in this book, we are going to focus on VMware, and specifically ESXi Hypervisor, as it is free and a scaled version of what you will see out in the real world when it comes to production. We are going to spin up Hypervisor in efforts to create our own lab, install a handful of virtual machines (VMs), and attempt to mimic a virtual Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) environment.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding what virtualization is
  • Discovering what VMware ...

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