> - provide teachers and professors with online remote tools to do their lessons
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> - give students the opportunity to study real life examples in their chosen area of expertise
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> - allow developers to fully test and debug their applications and provide POC’s
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> - or you simply want to use a Application (in a microservices-based architecture)
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> Swarmlab provides you with all the required tools, tools to teach work or try out demos in a completely virtual environment.
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> More info: http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/index.html
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## LabInstance libvshadow
libvshadow is a library to access the Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) format. The VSS format is used by Windows, as of Vista, to maintain copies of data on a storage media volume.
- You can run them **through the swarmlab hybrid environment** (http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/swarmlab/docs/swarmlab/docs/hybrid/start-microservices.html)
- or use them individually at will on the **command line of your system**