RE: Penetration Testing Lab Setup - VMWare

["disciple" <marcus () nwnc net>]

I have also had a great deal of success with VMWare labs.  Although I have
found that I peg a 1GHz CPU if I have 2 or more virtual machines running,
with scanning or attacks in action.  Has anyone had success with multiple
processor systems running VMWare? Does VMWare take advantage of the
additional processors?

Thanks,

Marcus


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From: Discussion Lists [mailto:discussions () lagraphico com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 12:51 PM
To: Indian Tiger; pen-test () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: Penetration Testing Lab Setup


Hi Indian Tiger,
I have had really good luck with VMWare.  It is great for setting up
various Linux/Windows platform configurations, and saving them, then
re-using them later.  You will need a LOT of HD space, and a TON of RAM
for them though if you plan on setting up anything complex.  I have been
able to set up entire company networks including (believe it or not)
firewalls, mail servers, clients even home-grown routers (of the linux
flavor).  I can set those machines so that they have restore points, so
that anything I do to them can be undone.  If you run out of RAM on the
host machine, you just get another host machine and start running more
virtual machines on it.  Stick them all on a hub, and set up a separate
"test machine" on the same hub with all of your penn-test tools, and
start hammering away.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Indian Tiger [mailto:indiantiger () mailandnews com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:59 PM
> To: pen-test () securityfocus com
> Subject: Penetration Testing Lab Setup
> Importance: High
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> My management asks me to give detailed requirements for
> Penetration Testing
> lab setup. Same Lab I would like to utilize for Computer
> Crime Investigation
> as well. Currently we are following OSSTMM as baseline for
> Penetration
> Testing.
>
> Any suggestions, comments highly appreciated.
> Thanking You.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Indian Tiger, CISSP
>
>
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