The speed of innovation and transformation in IT and enterprise business is so stunning that we are experiencing more technological changes than ever before. This transition has led to an increased emphasis on IT training and upskilling of employees. The need to deliver training experiences remotely has also expanded as businesses are looking to expand into new locations.
VMware® Lab Platform™ was developed specifically to solve these complex training challenges for VMware employees and customers, and we believe it can also help your organization deliver your own remote lab experience.
What is VMware Lab Platform?
VMware Lab Platform is a SaaS offering that manages and deploys lab templates onto VMware Cloud on AWS from any supported AWS region. You don’t need to install or update any hardware to use VMware Lab Platform. With your SaaS subscription, you can access all the latest offerings and features of VMware Lab Platform and deliver custom-made, on-demand lab training. The end-to-end digital learning environment takes care of the entire technology stack within the SaaS offering—including infrastructure, provisioning, user management and entitlement, lab lifecycle, manual delivery, and creation.
What are the common use cases of VMware Lab Platform?
VMware Cloud on AWS
While you continue to benefit from your data center investments, you may want to look at the benefits and the unique advantages offered by the public cloud. Traditional data center environments cannot cost-effectively deliver these unique offerings of a public cloud. To make the most of your private data center and the public cloud, you need to seamlessly integrate your existing data center infrastructure with the public cloud.
VMware Cloud on AWS solves these challenges by delivering a deeply integrated hybrid cloud service that integrates familiar VMware flagship Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) technologies for compute, storage, and network virtualization products (VMware vSphere®, VMware vSAN, and VMware NSX®) along with VMware vCenter® management and robust disaster protection; all optimized to run on the dedicated, elastic Amazon EC2 bare-metal infrastructure.
Why VMware Lab Platform with VMware Cloud on AWS?
VMware Lab Platform delivered with VMware Cloud on AWS provides a global reach for your lab training and demo needs while providing dynamic control on how and where you deliver the lab content.
Extending your lab deployment automation onto available VMware cloud capacity provides the added flexibility of an on-demand deployment with adjustable cluster sizes while at the same time taking advantage of the availability of regions not covered with VMware’s hosted VMware Lab Platform options.
VMware Lab Platform deploys a proxy management VM into your SDDC environment that facilitates the management and orchestration of lab templates into the SDDC cluster. When labs are deployed within your VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC, you can take advantage of the existing network connectivity, previously deployed workloads, or even adjacent AWS native services that may apply to your training scenarios.
Key Capabilities
- Expand to new locations: Obtain resources and cloud capacity for labs for any VMware Cloud on AWS regions without building new data centers or investing in over-provisioning of existing resources.
- Access capacity on-demand: Ability to provide and handle unplanned, temporary, or seasonal capacity needs without incurring the capital expense to maintain the spare capacity.
- Extend lab environments to your premises: Lab environments can be provisioned with access to on-premises services and hardware to re-create training simulations that require physical devices over a secure connection.
- Provide pre-defined lab, demo, and training environments: Deploy lab environments as needed for training consistently with pre-configured labs and scenarios that are great for both training and demos.
How to get started?
Getting started with VMware Lab Platform couldn’t be easier. If you already have existing VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC capacity available, you can easily get started from the VMware Lab Platform product page. We have a 30-Day risk-free trial that allows you to evaluate our product with your cloud capacity.
If you need both:
- VMware Cloud on AWS—Find more details here, and click on Get started.
- VMware Lab Platform—Get a product demo and start your trial here.
- Contact your VMware representative.
Summary
Expand your training reach with VMware Lab Platform. Lab deployment automation allows you to focus on content and training, as VMware Cloud on AWS provides all the required infrastructure management and automation of the data center in AWS Cloud.
You can accelerate remote training for your teams and customer demos by using the native capabilities of VMware Lab Platform and combining it with the reach of VMware Cloud on AWS.
