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Viva VLP Virtual Lab Platform
Organisations delivering virtual IT training today face a fragmented, costly, and unmanageable lab environment. Physical infrastructure is expensive, hybrid lab estates lack visibility, and security gaps expose sensitive training networks to real risk. Viva VLP by STAR Systems solves this by centralising the entire virtual lab lifecycle on Proxmox: from provisioning and access control to live monitoring and hybrid cloud migration. The result is a single, secure, fully observable training platform that scales from tens to tens of thousands of concurrent learners, with zero dependency on proprietary hypervisor licensing.
Challenges Enterprises Face in Virtual Training Labs
Modern enterprise training environments often struggle with problems of an inadequate infrastructure, weak security control, and insufficient visibility.
Fragmented Lab Operations
Labs are scattered across physical servers, ad-hoc cloud instances, and siloed platforms. Every environment has its own tooling, its own management overhead, and its own failure mode.
Weak Security
Control
Lab networks with shared credentials, open access policies, and no group based permission controls are a liability. One compromised training can expose production-adjacent infrastructure.
Limited
Visibility
Administrators cannot see what is running, who has accessed what, or where performance is degrading until something breaks. Without live dashboards, usage analytics, and reporting are guesswork.
Key Features of Viva VLP
Viva VLP is a full-stack virtual lab platform built on Proxmox, designed to give enterprises centralised control over every lab environment they deliver. Five capability areas define its value
Unified Lab Control
A single-pane management console to provision, configure, and monitor all virtual labs regardless of location, eliminating the need to toggle between tools.
Outcomes: IT teams reclaim hours previously lost to manual provisioning
and incident firefighting.
Let the Instructor Lead
Role-based access control, Modern OIDC/LDAP authentication, custom firewall policies, and dedicated group permissions ensure that each student, instructor, or class operates within a strictly isolated boundary.
Outcomes: Security incidents in training networks are eliminated at the
access layer.
Instructor and Student Portals
Instructors get real-time class visibility, student progress tracking, and remote console access. Students get a clean lab browser with one-click launch and self-paced progress tracking.
Outcomes: Training delivery quality improves without increasing instructor Workload.
Real-Time Visibility Dashboard
Live monitoring of CPU, memory, storage, and session activity across all nodes and VMs. Usage analytics and audit logs feed directly into compliance and capacity planning workflows.
Outcomes: Administrators move from reactive firefighting to proactive
resource management.
Seamless Proxmox Migration
Built-in Proxmox Migration tooling moves existing virtual machines from legacy hypervisor environments with automated configuration conversion and migration wizards.
Outcomes: Organisations consolidate on Proxmox without disrupting live
training programmes.
Viva VLP Implementation Phases
1
Discovery and Environment
Audit
Map existing lab infrastructure, document VM
inventory, identify security gaps, and define
access policies.
Wk 1-2
2
Proxmox Infrastructure Setup
Deploy Proxmox cluster, configure storage pools,
networking, and high-availability settings aligned
to your scale requirements.
Wk 2-3
3
Viva VLP Platform Deployment
Install and configure Viva VLP, integrate with
existing LDAP/SSO, create role-based
permission groups, and configure firewall
policies.
Wk 3-5
4
Content Migration and Lab
Authoring
Migrate existing VMs using Proxmox Migration
tooling, build or import lab blueprints, and
configure instructor and student portals.
Wk 5-7
5
Go-Live, Monitoring and
Handover
Conduct acceptance testing, activate real-time
dashboards, train administrators and instructors,
and hand over to operations.
Wk 7-8
Why Star Systems
Platform Independence
Viva VLP is built entirely on Proxmox, the open-source enterprise hypervisor. Your organisation carries no proprietary hypervisor licensing cost and no vendor lock-in risk.
End-to-End Ownership
We own the full product stack including development, support, and roadmap. You are not dependent on a third-party ISV for critical fixes or feature requests.
Edutech Depth
We Bring proven delivery experience across corporate training environments, engineering colleges, and large-scale cloud lab deployments across India and Southeast Asia.
Deployment Flexibility
Viva VLP runs on-premises, in your private cloud, or in a hybrid configuration across Proxmox nodes in multiple data centres, all managed from a single console.
Our Implementation Process
Schedule a Technical Call
STAR Systems architect walks through your current lab estate, identifies migration complexity, and scopes the deployment. No obligation.
1
2
Live Platform Demo
We provision a sandboxed Viva VLP instance against a sample Proxmox environment and demonstrate all five capability areas live with your team.
Receive a Scoped Proposal
Based on the discovery call and demo, We delivers a fixed scope implementation proposal with pricing, phased timeline, and SLA terms.
3
4
Proceed to Signed Agreement
Before deployment, we test functionality, security, and performance in different environments.
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