
So for now I'm still using the legacy UI for most of my work. Unfortunately the new UI is not yet free of bugs in this (preview) release, and still requires client software on the client for wireshark integration anyway. This will make it much easier to run EVE on a server somewhere and provide remote labs for co-workers or students.


So what's the big deal about EVE then? There's a list of new features, including the obligatory bug fixes and an upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04 as base platform. Take a look at this video to see UnetLab in action. Just throw a couple of images at it (EVE-NG supports a whole lot of different vendors), and start labbing. The great thing about UnetLab (and thus also about EVE-NG) is that everything is contained within a single VM, and you use a web-interface to create and manage your labs.

You can use it to spin up and connect a couple of switches and routers, in order to validate designs, test changes, or prepare for certification exams. For those of you that don't know what UnetLab is: it's a piece of software that you can use to emulate network equipment, much like GNS3. EVE (or formally: "Emulated Virtual Environment") is the successor to UnetLab. On January 1st the UnetLab team has released the first preview of EVE-NG.
