The Ultimate Test Drive

Build Your Own Data Center. Break It. Recover It. All in Your Browser.

Get Hands-On with VergeOS — No Hardware Required

See VergeOS for yourself in a live environment you control — no downloads, no hardware, no setup. In a series of short, guided exercises, you'll spin up VMs, protect them with snapshots, recover from failures, and migrate live workloads without downtime.

The labs are free and self-paced, and the data center you build in the first one carries through the rest. It's the fastest way to find out what running VergeOS actually feels like. Apply for your free lab environment and start in minutes.

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Getting Started With VergeOS

Each lab is available 24/7 and can be completed in 15 to 20 minutes, making it easy to fit into your busy schedule. Whether you're new to VergeOS or looking for a deeper understanding of its capabilities, our hands-on labs will provide you with the knowledge you need to succeed.

Foundation Lab

Your foundation — start here.

Log in, make the interface your own, and stand up your first virtual machine in a live VergeOS environment. You'll create a snapshot policy to protect your workloads automatically and apply tags to keep everything organized — building a small but fully functional personal data center you'll use throughout the entire lab series. No prior VergeOS experience needed.

You'll learn: Logging in, interface navigation, creating VMs, snapshot policies, and tagging
Best for: First-time users and anyone evaluating VergeOS
Time: ~30 minutes · Level: Beginner

Lab 1 Create Your Data Center
File Recovery Lab

VM Recovery Lab

When a VM goes down, get it back in seconds.

Things break — the question is how fast you recover. In this lab you'll restore a failed or deleted virtual machine and see firsthand how VergeOS turns recovery from a stressful, multi-step ordeal into a few clicks. Using the snapshots you set up earlier, you'll roll a VM back to a known-good state and watch it come back online.

  • You'll learn: Restoring VMs from snapshots and core recovery workflows
  • Prerequisite: Getting Started with VergeOS
  • Time: ~20 minutes · Level: Beginner

File Recovery Lab

Recover a single file without restoring the whole machine.

Not every recovery needs a full VM rollback. Here you'll dig into a protected workload and pull back lost or corrupted files individually, using VergeOS's built-in recovery tools. It's the granular, everyday recovery skill that saves hours when a user deletes the wrong thing.

  • You'll learn: Granular file-level restore from protected workloads
  • Prerequisite: Getting Started with VergeOS
  • Time: ~20 minutes · Level: Beginner
Lab 3 restore an entire vm
Lab 4 recover

VM Live Migration Lab

Move running workloads — with zero downtime.

Experience one of virtualization's most powerful capabilities: relocating a live, running VM with no disruption to users. In this lab you'll migrate a workload in real time and confirm it never skips a beat — the foundation of maintenance, balancing, and resiliency in a production environment.

  • You'll learn: Live migration of running VMs with no downtime
  • Prerequisite: Getting Started with VergeOS
  • Time: ~20 minutes · Level: Intermediate