{"id":728,"date":"2013-03-13T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2013-03-16T18:30:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T18:30:40","slug":"pimp-my-vlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pimp my vLab&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Laverick recently made aware of a nice alternative to home labs. I have an extensive home lab at home so I think it\u2019s too late for me now but I did contemplate getting a hosted lab rather than kill my electricity and upset the wife. But too late for me but not for you. Check out Mike\u2019s article here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pimp your vLab\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikelaverick.com\/2013\/03\/not-ready-bare-metal-cloud-for-your-auto-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.mikelaverick.com\/2013\/03\/not-ready-bare-metal-cloud-for-your-auto-lab\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quote:<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cWhen I was in Australia recently for the Sydney\/Melbourne VMUG I had the chance to meet Alastair Cooke \u2013 and sit in on his presentation on AutoLab. Alastair is a VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) based in New Zealand, and is one of the hosts of the APAC VMTN Communities Podcast. In case you don\u2019t know AutoLab is tool that will build for you using scripts a vSphere Lab environment \u2013 and its based on the principle of \u201cnested ESX\u201d or \u201cvESX\u201d \u2013 where ESX is run in VM on a physical ESX host. It\u2019s was updated in Dec, 2012 to support vSphere 5.1.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Laverick recently made aware of a nice alternative to home labs. I have an extensive home lab at home so I think it\u2019s too late for me now but I did contemplate getting a hosted lab rather than kill my electricity and upset the wife. But too late for me but not for you. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,14,15,8,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citrix","category-downloads","category-lwl","category-vcloud","category-vcptips","category-vmware","category-whitepapers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":3891,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}