As an IT professional, it is important to have a lab environment to play around with – whether you’re a developer writing code or a systems administrator building servers – to test ideas and concepts prior to doing it for reals. Time and time again, I’ve heard folks say how expensive it is to build a lab environment. That used to be the case but not anymore. With cloud providers and virtualization options, there is really no excuse to not build a personal lab environment that is both affordable and economical.
Building a Portable Hyper-V Lab On A Budget Part 1
15 Sunday Mar 2015
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My Dilemma: Can You Offer Suggestions? I am an instructor teaching SP to Site Users, Owners and Admins. I don’t have the hardware necessary to build a farm. Currently I use virtual labs designed by the courseware provider but the lag time is painful. Connecting to the virtual labs takes what seems like decades and then executing simple commands can delay the class by 2-3 minutes at a time. (Many times per day). How can I affordably build my own test lab that can be used in a classroom of up to 12 students?
Sir,
If you have an MSDN subscription, you can use your Microsoft Azure credits to build a SharePoint farm on Azure. Depending on your requirement, you can create the appropriately sized VMs for the farm. You can connect to the servers via Remote Desktop.
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Thanks.