CML use a variety of provided Cisco reference platforms to design and test your network. It supports virtual machine based devices using QCOW or KVM format, and can be tied into physical components by “bridging” the simulation to the real world. It allows for the creation of robust network topologies made up of nearly anything you can imagine. Licence: commercial, but freely available over Devnet Sandbox ( )ĭescription: Cisco Modeling Labs is Cisco proprietary platform for network simulation. Actually (2020) it supports CCNA labs, ENCOR labs and ENARSI labs. It offer set of labs whose number depend on the cert level. Licence: commercial, costs follow certification levelsĭescription: The Boson NetSim Network Simulator simulates Cisco Systems’ devices and is designed to aid the user in learning the Cisco IOS command structure. Antidote makes this first step a lot easier, by simply removing this initial barrier, and allowing the learner to focus only on the specific topic in question, without sacrificing any of the useful interactivity of a dedicated lab. Often the first step to learning about network automation is the hardest: you need to setup complex virtual environments, labs, or worse risk experimenting in production.
Together, NRE Labs teaches skills right in your web browser with real tools, code and network devices. It is the core of the NRE Labs project, which combines the Antidote platform with a specific curriculum built to teach automation and Network Reliability Engineering principles. (NetEm), 05/2021 (Mininet WiF, GloMoSim, NAB, J-Sim, LTE-Sim), 03/2021 (Kathara, CML)ĭescription: Antidote is a community initiative to democratize interactive, dependency-free learning. Keir Thomas has been making known his opinion about computing matters since the last century, and more recently has written several best-selling books. You can even use mobile phones to connect to the desktop environments.
XenDesktop also allows your workers to access their desktops from home, provided the server is configured to be publicly accessible and they have the right client software installed. XenDesktop includes clever technology to avoid common thin-client pitfalls, such as the fact videos and animations don’t play well, by shifting some of the processing work to the client computer.
The clients access their personal desktop spaces on the server and there’s little noticeable difference compared with running the operating system and applications locally.
Other versions of Windows don’t support setting up an RDP server without a little bit of hacking (Google it).īy installing Citrix XenDesktop on your Windows server, you can turn old, less powerful computers into thin clients, wiping out the need for a workstation IT upgrade budget. The same instructions work for Windows Vista, although you’ll need the Professional, Business, or Ultimate editions.
If you’re running Windows 7 Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise, then you can configure the computer to accept RDP connections by right-clicking Computer on the Start menu, selecting Properties, and clicking the Remote Settings link in the window that appears. This will let you access the same desktop environment you’re used to, although there’ll be no fancy graphics. Just leave it running (with power saving turned off!), take your mobile phone or tablet computer instead, and access the laptop via a Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connection over the Internet. If you’re out of the office, there’s no need to take your laptop with you. Backing up should be fine, but if you create a copy of a VM installation to give to a friend, for example, then you’ll be contravening copyright laws (assuming they apply, as with Microsoft, but not always with Linux). Bear in mind that creating a copy of a VM creates legal issues.