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New Beta Program option: VMware Hosted Beta

Duncan Epping · Mar 26, 2013 ·

Many of you probably have participated in one of the many beta programs VMware has offered in the last couple of years. I personally have participated in various beta programs when I was a customer / partner and I always loved going through the various exercises. The challenging part for me always was finding the time to setup the environment.

Recently VMware started offering a new way to participate in the evaluation and feedback of VMware’s developing products. The VMware Beta Program is now offering a Hosted Beta; providing registered users access to pre-build online Lab environments with guided workflows to get a closer look at the latest and greatest VMware technologies without the need to build-out infrastructure onsite.

This hosted technology is based on the same technologies used for the Hands-On Labs (HOL) at VMworld, providing a fully built environment to explore intricate product features while requiring nothing more than an HTML5 compliant browser and the latest View Client.

In my opinion this is a great opportunity to test-drive products and provide VMware with your feedback on the features still under development. On top of that this will allow you to spend 1-2 hour blocks to get acquainted with new technology, without the need to be on-site. You can do this at the office, or at home with just a connection to the internet.

If you are interested and want to learn more about the VMware Beta Program you can go here: http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta

If you are interested in joining the VMware Beta Program you can either work with your VMware account team or submit a participation request form found here: http://communities.vmware.com/community/beta/betainterest

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  1. max says

    26 March, 2013 at 18:22

    Hello,
    Thanks for information.
    Sorry for my english
    But I field all formular and I redirect to beta community is it normaly?

    • Duncan Epping says

      26 March, 2013 at 20:36

      Fill out this form, and if you are lucky you get selected 🙂

      http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/betainterest

    • Ross Cavanagh says

      27 March, 2013 at 04:12

      Max, I had the same issue thing happen. I filled out the form http://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/beta/betainterest and as soon as I clicked submit it just returned me to the beta community page. Not sure if this was normal either, and no confirmation email or anything was sent.

  2. Jeremy says

    28 March, 2013 at 06:53

    Same here…. don’t know if my info was successfully submitted or not

  3. Phil says

    28 March, 2013 at 16:19

    Hmmm…wonder if VMware is going to bring back VMTN and use these hosted services in some fashion. I bet a lot of people would be happy they wouldn’t have to shell out the dough or time to build a home server environment.

    • Andrew Mauro says

      30 March, 2013 at 07:54

      Hosted service is great and really useful to do lab and test products.
      And, for other non beta products there are also the HOL (http://hol.vmware.com/).

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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