some the time we spend in the class, is time you would spend anyway to build a PoC, Dev or Home Lab, with everything working out of the box

@Jarian Gibson cool, would at least pay some of your energy bill 😉

where's your session tile & summary @Jarian Gibson for #virutalexpo?

@dready I'm picking up 8x NUCs next week, so the lab is already there, on-prem or cloud

Will send over today. Getting back up right for longer than a few minutes. This respiratory infection is kicking my ass.

@Jarian Gibson here yah, the kids has been on/off sick for 2 weeks. Good we had Carneval for them to get well, what goes around comes around from the School

Same here. Started with one kid & then me & other kid got sick. Now all 3 of us sick

Hope yours are feeling better

yeah the whole family, but I only get sickness for 1 day max

all is great here man, best of luck with yours @Jarian Gibson it's the time of the year, at least here in Brasil. They're not used to rain, here it's like Orlando 30C 24/7/365, so when it starts raining heavily like now (rainy season) everybody gets sick

yep, thought about that in general not for your automation course. maybe for many companies this would be an interesting offer not having to build their own lab. of course not my understanding of the value of a lab, but maybe worth to give it a try 🙂

Will do @dready

Just has to grab some new NUCs - Already sold 4 and I got them at $299, now they're at $379

Whatever you do, there will be a fair amount of cost involved if you want to do it right. Skimping and then having an unsatisfactory, substandard end result isn't worth it, IMO.

My thinking, so might better of with individual NUCs as planned before

You got a great deal on those $299 NUCs!

indeed, that why I did grab 4x from my & created a new account for my wife with Prime Trial

8x total

@User for those that dont have NUCs you could do a hosted lab via Citrix where everyone gets a VDI console session to use one of the NUCs that you will have somewhere. I now have a “rack" so I could also host it for you

@User what about an "Eric-Cloud" or "XenAppBlog-Cloud" which is rentable 😬

Should be easy to find some guys around the globe to host some NUCs 😬

eCloud 🙂

Nuc rack shelves like they have for Mac mini

I could host as well. Power, cooling, dual 1GB fiber internet.

So thinking of going caseless for multiple motherboards to be stack. Any idea on using a single bigger power supply and power distribution?

Yes make sure if you go single power distribution you cover or shield the exposed wiring as much as possible from dust

Was looking at those 1 to many barrel connectors

Use 4 pin power supply connector on board