Hi Christopher,
Thanks for your response, I'll be looking into the option of IAW in the near future. As an elearning suggestion (whilst I understand potentially not possible) I was very impressed by recently discovering that F5 have a way for users to create an account and login to VM's they've got setup directly through their website, where you're able to work on labs and other things to get experience with equipment.
Obviously for Cisco there are thinks like packet tracer and GNS3 which are both incredibly useful tools when learning and also when brainstorming/troubleshooting.
I'd be hoping that in the future there may be a way to emulate some of the features of Aruba OS to help those training up!
Until then I'm still trying to get hold of a spare A200 we've got to start using as a lab device :-)
Cheers