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Kick-start your infrastructure optimization journey with immediate, short-term access to IT labs—for free.

Experience Accelerated Infrastructure

Explore several free hands-on labs designed for the IT professional to evaluate the benefits of a unified architecture to accelerate both traditional and modern workloads, from AI and data science to HPC and VDI. With labs for hybrid-cloud or virtualized data centers on NVIDIA-hosted infrastructure and provided datasets, IT practitioners can immediately access accelerated workflows and ask NVIDIA experts questions about their specific infrastructure. Choose one of the labs below to get started.

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View all of the hands-on labs available through NVIDIA LaunchPad that include Infra Optimization below

Optimize VMware vSphere for AI and Data Science Workloads

Optimize VMware vSphere for AI and Data Science Workloads

Best for: Virtualization administrator

What’s included:

  • Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Docker, VMware vSphere, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
  • Technologies: TensorFlow, TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton Inference Server
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Optimize AI and Data Science Workloads (VMware Tanzu)

Optimize AI and Data Science Workloads (VMware Tanzu)

Best for: Virtualization administrator

What’s included:

  • Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, VMware vSphere with Tanzu, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
  • Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes
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Optimize AI & Data Science Workloads (Red Hat OpenShift)

Optimize AI & Data Science Workloads (Red Hat OpenShift)

Best for: IT administrator

What’s included:

  • Products: NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Red Hat OpenShift, NVIDIA-Certified Systems
  • Technologies: NVIDIA operators, Kubernetes
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Experience VMware vSphere powered by NVIDIA Bluefield DPU

Experience VMware vSphere powered by NVIDIA Bluefield DPU

Best for: Virtualization administrator, network administrator

What’s included:

  • Products: VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine, NVIDIA BlueField-2 DPU
  • Technologies: VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, ESXi, NSX-T, vSAN
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Each lab comes with world-class service and support.

Here’s what you can expect from NVIDIA LaunchPad labs.

A Hands-On Experience

A Hands-On
Experience

Take curated labs that walk you through the entire process, from infrastructure optimization to application deployment.

Ready-to-Use Infrastructure

Ready-to-Use
Infrastructure

Test and prototype on ready-to-use infrastructure that’s hosted at Equinix and available to you for up to two weeks.

Assistance from Experts

Assistance from
Experts

Learn from documented, self-paced experiences and access assistance from NVIDIA experts when you need it.

Confident Design and Purchase Decisions

Confident Design and Purchase Decisions

After using NVIDIA LaunchPad, you’ll make more confident design and purchase decisions to accelerate your journey.

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