This presentation is about vLab Manager, a software tool for developing and deploying virtual training environments. It discusses how NATO used vLab Manager to rapidly deploy class setups for international cyber defense exercises. vLab Manager masks virtualization complexities and allows agile creation and deployment and sanitation of training simulations. Its key features include creating exercise definitions, mapping definitions to resources, deploying VMs to sandboxes, troubleshooting, and undeploying VMs.

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Agenda
• Context for vLM
• vLM Value
• vLM Functionality
• References

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vLab Manager Use Case
• NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of
Excellence needed the rapid deployment tool to
develop the class setup for international Cyber
Defence Exercises

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Cyber Range
Platform for the cyber defence
trainings and exercises

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Cyber Range

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vLab Manager
Software for
training environment
development and deployment

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Value
• vLM is the platform to mask the virtualization
specifics from training content developers
• vLM provides agile creation, rapid deployment
and sanitation of the training simulation
environments

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Functionality

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Key Features
• Create exercise definition
• Map exercise definition to physical resources
• Create VM definitions
• Deploy selected VM-s into selected sandboxes
• Troubleshoot the deployment
• Undeploy VM-s

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Roadmap
• Linked-clone support
• Custom ISO images generation and mount
during VM deployment
• Automated vSphere snapshot creation
• Improvements of existing functionality

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References
Cyber defence exercises
• Locked Shields – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Cyber Coalition – 2013, 2014, 2015
Locked Shields is one of the world’s biggest international real-time network defence
exercise:
• Competition between teams from NATO countries
• Identical virtual environments to be defended against specialized attacker teams
• Ca 1500 VMs in battlefield
Besides providing the underlying infrastructure and vLab Manager software ByteLife also
makes sure at the exercises that all systems stay functional under heavy load by providing
support during the preparation and execution stages of the exercises.

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