Online Labs

[jonk34567]

is there any websites there i can access real cisco devices for practicing purposes ? for free or money ?

[Francesco Molino · Accepted solution]

Hi

You have Cisco Virl that costs 199$ per year and you have all devices to build some labs.
Then you can have GNS3 or Eve-ng that requires you to download iso or ova image that will be imported into the software. This will allow also to build some labs.
You can download quite all Cisco software with a demo license for 90 days or you can ask Cisco to generate you a demo license for 90 days (firepower, WSA, ISE, ACS,.....)

You can also find some labs on dcloud.cisco.com

[Marvin Rhoads]

ASAv software can be downloaded for free and used with free VMware ESXi server. 

It is fully functional. The only limitation is that it only has 100 kbps throughput when running unlicensed.

[Marius Gunnerud]

If you have a powerful enough host machine you could build a complete Security lab on it, all virtualized.

You would need at least 128Gig of RAM and a minimum of 8 core processor. You would also need to purchase a physical switch as there are some things that the virtual switch is not capable of doing (for example private VLANs).

You would also need access to Cisco and be able to download the following software images:

CSR 

ISE

WSA

ESA

FTD

FMC

ASA

WLC

And you would also need to have a windows server running active directory, DHCP and DNS.

It seems like a lot, but it really isn't difficult to setup.