Sponsored VMUG Advantage! & what is it?

May 4, 2020
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Hi everyone,

A few days ago, I was surprised with a Twitter DM from the VMUG Advantage Twitter account.

It turns out, that secretly, Heath Johnson from VMware has been in touch with the VMUG Advantage team about me without telling me.

I’m not sure how he managed to pull it off, but VMUG Advantage and me and partnering up! I’ve been given a sponsored 1 year VMUG Advantage subscription, which is amazing! And many, many thanks to Heath for making it happen!

Of course, in return I’ll blog about my adventures with VMUG Advantage. TestDrive is something that I have been exploring lately along with how much easier it’ll be for me to get things set up in my lab using for evaluation licenses.

If you are not sure what you get with VMUG Advantage, or not even sure what it is, let me explain it for you.

VMUG Advantage is a subscription you can get, which gives you discounts amongst other benefits. You get 100$ off of VMworld and you get 20-35% off of training.
Other than that, you also get access to 365-day evaluation licenses. These non-production use licenses are valid for 365 days and are perfect for use in your lab. You also get the downloads, though it may take a bit for the latest version of a product to be on it. This is what is available as of writing this, as of May 4th 2020:

  • Workstation 15 Pro
  • Fusion 11 Pro
  • Cloud Foundation 3.9.1
  • NSX-T 3.0
  • Site Recovery Manager
  • vRealize Suite 2019
  • vRealize Network Insight
  • vSAN 7
  • vSphere 7
  • vCenter 7
  • vSphere 6.x
  • vCenter 6.x
  • vSAN 6.x
  • NSX-V
  • vRealize Orchestrator
  • vRealize Operations for Horizon
  • Horizon Advanced Edition
  • vCloud Suite Standard

I’m not entirely sure of all the versions, but this is what I got.

Not only that (which in my opinion is already amazing), you also get access to VMware TestDrive. With TestDrive you get access to multiple product environments, even some of them as sandboxes. This includes:

Ready to Use Experiences:

  • Workspace ONE
  • Workspace ONE UEM
  • Horizon Cloud
  • Horizon
  • App Volumes
  • Dynamic Environment Manager
  • vSAN
  • PKS
  • velocloud
  • AppDefense

Sandbox Experiences:

  • Workspace ONE UEM
  • Workspace ONE Access
  • Workspace ONE Express

You also get access to the following Sample Integrations:

  • Dropbox
  • Office 365
  • Salesforce

I’m very, very thankful for Health to organize this and I’m very excited to make more blog posts about it. It’s coming soon along with other blog posts about some lab changes.

See you in the next post!