Hermes - Lab Build

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I still love the idea of home based labs, even with something like the NUC it's more than possible to do it at home easily.

 

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I looked at Azure before going down the physical build route but I had two distinct issues:

1) The costs didn't really add up, running a few VMs with storage for a couple of hours a night would have cost the same as what I paid for my physical rig over a 3 year period.
2) Azure doesn't support nested hypervisors, so any kind of virtualisation training would be out of question.

You caught my attention with the MSDN Subscription but to get $150 of credit I'd need to register for Visual Studio Ultimate Subscription which is £11,235.

 

Yeah I have that, but you don't necessarily get client licenses.