Do you find yourself longing for the good old days of the VMware Technical Network (VMTN)? Do you have a home lab you are wanting to use to learn more about the VMware ecosphere. Well good news, the fine folks at VMUG today announced the addition of a service called Eval Experience to their already excellent service VMUG Advantage. Eval Experience will provide 365 day evaluation licenses for a variety of VMware’s products including
- vCenter Server Server 5 Standalone
- vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise Plus
- vCloud Suite Standard
- vRealize Operations Insight
- vRealize Operations 6 Enterprise
- vRealize Log Insight
- vRealize Operations for Horizon
- Horizon Advanced Edition
- Virtual SAN (VSAN)
That is a great list that includes the vast majority of technologies that one wanting to break into virtualization would look for. Really the only thing missing in my opinion is NSX and frankly I’m flummoxed as to why it isn’t there considering VMware’s big push in the SDN direction of late.
In any case, considering the $200 price tag for an Advantage subscription this is a good deal for evaluation licensing kit. For comparison, the best deal I ever got for Microsoft Technet (#RIP) was $250 per year. Nevermind the fact that you get a number of other discounts and services as part of your subscription.
