I’ve written about VMTN in the past and discussed the return of VMTN many times within VMware with various people all the way up to our CTO. Unfortunately due to various reasons it never happened, but fortunately the VMUG organization jumped on to it not too long ago and managed to get it revamped. If you are interested in it then see the blurb below, visit the VMUG website and sign up. I can’t tell you how excited I am about this and how surprised I was that the VMUG team has managed to pull this off in a relatively short time frame. Thanks VMUG!
Source: VMUG – EVALExperience!
VMware and VMUG have partnered with Kivuto Solutions to provide VMUG Advantage Subscribers a customized web portal that provides VMUG Advantage Subscribers with self-service capability to download software and license keys. Licenses to available VMware products are regularly updated and posted to the self-service web portal. The licenses available to VMUG Advantage Subscribers are 365-day evaluation licenses that require a one-time, annual download. Annual product downloads ensure that Subscribers receive the most up-to-date versions of products.Included products are:
- VMware vCenter Server™ 5 Standalone for vSphere 5
- VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™ Enterprise Plus
- VMware vCloud Suite® Standard
- VMware vRealize™ Operations Insight™
- VMware vRealize Operations™ 6 Enterprise
- VMware vRealize Log Insight™
- VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon®
- VMware Horizon® Advanced Edition
- VMware Virtual SAN™
A new 365 entitlement will be offered with the renewal of your yearly VMUG Advantage Subscription. Software is provided to VMUG Advantage Subscribers with no associated entitlement to support services, and users may not purchase such services in association with the EVALExperience licenses.
And there was much rejoicing throughout the land!! This just greatly increased the value of VMUG Advantage. I’m signing up today.
Now we are talking! For the person who already got VCP VMUG Advantage was not that attractive. After this change I will definitely buy it or subscribe to it 🙂
Awesome news I wont have to rebuild as often!
Indeed, i ordered the VMUG Advantage last week….unfortunately the VSAN licenses are divided up in seperate 2-cpu licenses…..as you all know, the VSAN license is for the Cluster object, well…..my 4 lab VSAN hostes have a total of 4 cpus….bummer! I already contacted VMUG, and they will contact VMware about this……i was soooo close to a working VSAN enabled LAB at home (studying for VCAP -DCA 5.5)…well….have to wait some more i think…:)
What exactly do you get for the evaluation licenses? are they unlimited or limited in some way. The above note mentions 2-cpu licenses? so if i have a host with 2 procs would i only have one host license for vsan? i though you need a minimum of 3 hosts? what about Horizon im looking ot setup a POC/lab for that and what would be the license limits? If i remember correctly vRealize operations is licensed per vm, how many vm’s can i setup with this? Is there a breakdown somewhere to see what the actual offering is?
They are limited to 1 year. You can apply for new licenses once the year is over and you apply to another year of VMUG. Indeed….i got a bunch of 2-cpu licenses for VSAN…..no good if you have more than 2 cpus in your VSAN cluster (which everybody has)…
If i remember correctly (not at my home lab right now) the Horizon license is for up to 100vms…vRealize should be also around 100vms….but i will verify it tonight…
Any news when VMUG Advantage will be refreshed with the whole Vsphere 6 stack? Currently I only see V5 products…
It was supposed to be updated mid April, but nothing so far. I really hope it will be updated in May. I really want to start looking into the new features.