

Costs – I irregular test things, so running a lab in the cloud will cost more money, even if you shut down everything after being done you still have the storage cost ticking.Presenting – If I can get it working smoothly, I can start using it on main stage so not relying on that event WIFI together with everyone else.Security – I am mostly testing some fast things with alpha or beta software that also is tied to cyber security in some way and some of those gems you don’t want to let loose in a shared lab environment or a cloud which scans the software running….


I hear you thinking why do you not deploy the lab in a cloud? I have three reasons for that: This way I will have a lab I can carry around with me on my travels around the world. I am going to setup a mobile lab on my MacBook Pro with the help of VMware Fusion 12 so I can run some ESXi servers with nested virtualization.
