Azure Lab Services allow institutions to quickly spin up virtual labs in the cloud in a simplified way. This presentation is going to guide you through the main aspects related to it.

1. Fabrício Lopes Sanchez
Sr. Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft Corp – WW EDU

2. Hands-on learning is the
best way to study…

3. …but as IT, maintaining a physical lab can be:
Complicated,
time consuming and
expensive

4. Students aren’t necessarily within the
institution anymore…

5. Students own different devices

6. What is Azure Lab Services?
Azure Lab Services enables you to quickly
set up an environment for your team (for
example: development environment, test
environment, classroom lab environment)
in the cloud.

7. Azure Lab Services
✓ Simple
✓ Cost-effective
✓ Flexible

8. Azure Lab Services
✓ Provides lab resources to students in any location
from any device
✓ Enables faculty staff to create labs and support
their classes without needing IT dept. intervention
✓ Has an all-inclusive pricing model to provide easy
budgeting
✓ Provides controls over scheduling and availability
of lab resources to only pay for what is used

9. IT Administrator Professors / Tutors Students
Azure Lab Services - Personas

10. Azure Lab Services - General flow
Azure Portal
portal.azure.com
▪ Create Lab Accounts
▪ Define custom images for the Labs
▪ Make images available for the Labs
▪ Assign professors/tutors to their Labs
▪ Integrates Labs to existing VNets
Step 1: IT Management
Step 2: Professors/Tutors Management
Labs Portal
labs.azure.com
▪ Create new Labs as needed
▪ Manage Lab usage: scheduling, quotas
▪ Creates VM templates for each Lab
▪ Manages students invitation
Step 3: Students
Labs Portal
labs.azure.com
▪ Get registered and joined into a Lab
▪ Can see all Labs available
▪ Connect to Lab’s VMs via RDP

12. Description
Scenario to be validated by the POC
# labs 1
# students on this lab 10
Course Computer Science
Content .NET Core and C-Sharp
OS base Windows 10
Tools Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, .NET Core 3.0,
SQL Server Express
Professor in charge Fabricio Lopes Sanchez
IT Operator Fabricio Lopes Sanchez
POC period 30 days
Estimated cost US$ 760 (1 hour/day)

13. fabsanc@microsoft.com
https://azure.microsoft.com/services/lab-services/
https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/lab-services/