Use cases

One lab platform. Every stage of a network career.

Whether you are studying for your first certification or validating a data centre design, VEX-NX gives you a real, multi-vendor lab on hardware you control.

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Students

Learn by building, breaking, and fixing.

Pick a Guided Lab at Bronze rank, follow the lesson beside the canvas, and work your way up to Silver and Gold. When you are ready, design your own topologies from scratch, free, with up to 100 nodes per lab.

Guided Labs across routing, switching, data centre, security, and more
FRRouting and Alpine ready on day one, no vendor downloads needed
Free Student edition that never expires

Guided Labs catalogue filtered by domain and rank

Network engineers

Rehearse the change before it touches production.

Paste running configs into Generate Lab to rebuild a slice of your network, then test the change you are planning. Add delay or loss to a link to see how routing reacts, and capture packets as proof.

Generate Lab from IOS, NX-OS, EOS, Junos, and FRR configs
Packet capture and link impairment on any link
Configuration Studio for golden, candidate, and running configs

Generate Lab: Create lab from running-config dialog

Instructors

Run a whole class from one appliance.

Customize a Guided Lab with your own topology, configs, and guide, and share it with students. With Enterprise, add class timers, an instructor dashboard, grading, and PDF reports.

Publish customized starters for your appliance
Lab sharing on both editions
Timers, dashboard, grading, and Proctor on Enterprise

A Guided Lab with its Guide open beside the topology

Infrastructure teams

Validate designs and automation on your own terms.

Everything runs on hardware you own, behind your network boundary. Drive labs from scripts and AI agents through the REST API and MCP tool catalogue, and scale out with Cluster Manager.

REST API with OpenAPI reference and MCP tools
Automation Studio playbooks on a schedule
LDAP, SSO, and RADIUS settings on Enterprise

Automation Studio and the API driving a lab

Launch your first lab today.

Download VEX-NX and install it on your own VMware host or server. The Student edition is free.

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