A bird's eye view of the Hands-on Labs room at VMware Explore 2024 in Las Vegas.
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Hands-on Labs Tours

Hands-on Labs is a perfect example of what you can do with VMware by Broadcom products and solutions. A tour of the Hands-on Labs room at Explore will give you a behind-the-scenes peek at what it takes to run the labs at massive scale. The tours last 30-45 minutes, covering both business and technical topics. In this tour, you will meet the lab creators as well as the engineering teams who run our multiple clouds. This is an excellent opportunity to ask questions and engage at a much deeper level.



Since 2014, our team has offered tours of the Hands-on Labs room at VMworld/Explore. The tours were created in response to the many questions we receive regarding our processes, tools, infrastructure, and scale. They provide an opportunity to hear from some of our team members who create the content and work in the trenches to make the event happen and ask questions that you may have about our program and the event.

Since we run everything in the cloud these days and there is no “gear” onsite to show (this still surprises many people!), our sharing now involves showcasing our live monitoring at the Command Center Wall and the backstage pass experience of the Hands-on Labs Tours.

Tour Schedule for Explore Las Vegas

Tours depart from the tour desk at the appointed times and are available to anyone who would like to know more, though space in each tour is limited, we have multiple tour times available each day.  

Command Center Wall

The Command Center wall has become a fixture in the Hands-on Labs room and is a featured stop on the tour route. The screens on this wall showcase the tools that our teams use for real-time monitoring of the event clouds, capacity utilization within the event hall, and other event-related information; check out this short video to learn more…You can check out the Command Center Wall in the Hands-on Labs room, located in The Hub, Level 2 of  the Venetian. We hope to see you there!

Register for Explore Las Vegas

Not registered?  Spots are still available, sign up here! Be sure to check out the Explore Content Catalog to plan your schedule. The catalog includes detailed descriptions of the Expert-led Workshops and Self-paced Labs   that will be available at the event. With over 60 new  labs covering the latest releases, you can dive deep into  the full breadth  of VMware by Broadcom solutions.

Not attending the event?  This year, the brand new labs will be available online at labs.hol.vmware.com on September 3rd, 2024!  Sign up here to be notified when they go live!

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