For an on-premises product, the traditional on-demand lab environment with pre-configured VMs and resources as lab templates work best. However for SaaS applications, where feature updates are more frequent, users need labs that provide the same experience as the SaaS application.

With the SaaS Consoles feature, you can provide SaaS applications as labs, simulated labs, and web URLs in the labs. To create simulated labs and add links to them in the VMware Lab Platform, you can use third party applications such as Walnut. A simulated lab provides pre-recorded labs in an interactive mode to users in the VMware Lab Platform user interface.

Figure 1. VMware Lab Platform SaaS labs life cycle
Displays the VMware Lab Platform SaaS lab life cycle.