VMware! Bring back the VMTN Subscription (Please!) by Mike Laverick
6 November, 2011These past few days there has been a lot of buzz around the VMTN Subscription. Mike Laverick started a community post on this and wrote a blogpost about the VMTN subscriptions. To support his case, I copied his original post here. Before you read Mike’s post I would like to add my own two cents… I most certainly think that a lot of VMware enthousiasts would like to get the VMTN Subscription back. Often the 60 days trial license is not enough since you don’t want to install and see that it works, you want to dive deep into what the product has to offer. Run it in your home lab or at work in a lab and break it on purpose, try to recover it, etc. A lot of products are complimentary to each other. If I want to test VMware SRM 5 I need a vCenter install and of course ESXi. If I want to test VMware View 5, I again need vCenter 5. With a 60 day trial I would spent a lot of time continuously rebuilding a basic environment. A subscription with a one year license for a wide range of products is needed. By creating a new VMTN program I think VMware would get even more admins enthousiastic about the non-mainstream products like the INFRASTRUCTURE & OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT suite. Please VMware, reinstate the VMTN Subscription.
By Mike Laverick: Today I want to start a campaign within the VMware Community. I would like to see VMware re-instate the “VMTN Subscription”. You might ask, what the hell is that? That would be fair enough because it was withdrawn many years ago, and never re-instated by VMware. (more…)
