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A home lab is considered the most critical component of a junior sysadmin portfolio. It simulates a corporate infrastructure.
Virtualization Platform: Install and configure a hypervisor like ProxMox (Linux-based) or VMware ESXi to host your machines.
Networking Setup: Use a virtual firewall (e.g., pfSense) to manage routing, subnets, and DHCP.
Windows Environment: Set up a Windows Server VM with Active Directory (AD) Domain Services, DNS, and Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
Linux Environment: Deploy CentOS or Ubuntu servers for hosting services (Apache, Nginx, Samba).
