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2021 VMUG Advantage Community Group Buy

04.28.2021 by William Lam // 1 Comment

Last year, I partnered up with the VMware User Group (VMUG) organization and shared with the VMware Community a special VMUG Advantage Homelab Group Buy offering, a first of its kind and it was a huge success! In fact, I still get pinged on a regular basis about the previous group buy and whether there would be another group buy?

Today, I am pleased to announce that both myself and Duncan Epping have teamed up with the VMUG organization to bring to the VMware Community the 2021 VMUG Advantage Group Buy!

For those not familiar with the VMUG Advantage membership, it provides benefits such as access to training, VMworld discounts but also to EVALExperience, which provides you with 365-days access (non-production usage) to the latest VMware solutions such as vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize Suite and VMware Cloud Foundation. The EVALExperience alone is worth the normal $200 USD membership fee and is certainly one of the cheapest and easiest way to get access to all the latest VMware offerings for homelab and educational purposes.

The table below provides the respective discounts based on the quantity of VMUG Advantage membership purchases. The larger the interests group, the larger the discount.

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Categories // Home Lab Tags // homelab, VMUG

Special VMUG Advantage Homelab Group Buy

04.10.2020 by William Lam // 12 Comments

The VMware Community Homelabs Project is a crowdsourcing effort that I had started back in February that enables the VMware community to help share the various VMware homelab configurations, usage and costs into a single location that can benefit our larger community. With the success of that project and the "hardware" aspects out of the way, I wanted to see what else I could do to help our VMware community in terms of the "software" aspects, as that is just as important.

The most popular solution by far today is to sign up for a VMUG Advantage membership which gives you access to a number of benefits including training and VMworld discounts but also to EVALExperience, which provides you with 365-days access (non-production usage) to the latest VMware solutions such as vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize Suite and VMware Cloud Foundation. The EVALExperience alone is worth the $200 USD membership and is certainly one of the cheapest and easiest way to get access to all the latest VMware offerings for homelab purposes. Throughout the year, there are usually promo codes that you can find that ranges anywhere from 5-10% discount, but I wanted to see if we could do better 🙂

Today, I am very excited to announce a partnership between virtuallyGhetto and the VMware User Group (VMUG) organization to share with the VMware Community a special VMUG Advantage Homelab Group Buy offering. The table below provides the respective discounts based on the quantity of VMUG Advantage membership purchases. The larger the interests group, the larger the discount.

UPDATE (04/25/20) - The survey has officially closed and I will send in the final list to the VMUG folks which you will be receiving an email with instructions on how to obtain your promotional code. In total, we had a total of 701 respondents!


UPDATE (04/20/20) - We now have over 600+ folks registered. Everyone signed up (please sign up as that is the only way to take part in the group buy) will receive the 15% discount. I have already spoken to the VMUG folks and they will be working on getting the promotion code ready so folks can start purchasing immediately, stay tuned for that update via email. We have also agreed to leave the survey up for another week (Fri 4/24 will be last day) to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to sign up.

Quantity Discount Cost
1-99 12% $176
100-199 14% $172
200-300 15% $170

With the GA of vSphere 7.0, vSAN 7.0 and NSX-T 3.0, there is no better time to consider VMUG Advantage to get access to the latest releases. If that was not enough, I should also mention that VMUG Advantage will also include the upcoming VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 release, which will allow folks to also try out the new vSphere with Kubernetes capabilities, which is currently only available as part of the VMware Cloud Foundation SKU.

Note: Licenses from VMUG Advantage can NOT be used for Production purposes.

If you are interested in participating in the VMUG Advantage Homelab Group Buy, please fill out the following survey below to express your interests in purchasing a VMUG Advantage subscription(s). This survey is planned to be open for two weeks to gauge the level of interests and help determine the final promotion discount. Please share this with friends and colleagues and its never too early to start thinking about Christmas gifts for that special someone 😉

Once the survey period has closed, you will be contacted by the VMUG organization with the details of the promotion along with the promotion code to apply towards your VMUG Advantage membership. Depending on the amount of interests, we could potentially close the survey sooner if we reach 200+ folks.

Here's short URL for the survey in case you want to share with others: http://vmwa.re/vmug-adv-groupbuy

Categories // Home Lab Tags // homelab, VMUG

Hope to see you at the Nordic VMUG UserCon in Dec!

10.26.2015 by William Lam // Leave a Comment

In case you missed it, a couple of weeks back, Liselotte Foverskov one of the leaders for the Nordic VMUG had announced some of the speakers for the upcoming Nordic VMUG UserCon taking place on Dec 1st at the Scandic Hotel in Copenhagen.

Nordic UserCon Dec 1 speakers : @pauldstrong @Astro_Andreas @DuncanYB @CormacJHogan @oriorp @joerglew @lamw http://t.co/P0EnZUnxtg #vmugdk

— Liselotte Foverskov (@LFoverskov) October 12, 2015

I was very fortunate to have been invited out to speak at the event. As you can see from the tweet above, I will also be joined by several of my colleagues from VMware like Paul Strong, Duncan Epping, Cormac Hogan, Paudie O'Riordan and Joerg Lew who will be covering a variety of topics, so there should be something for everyone. This will be my first time visiting Denmark and I am looking forward to meeting everyone and I hope that you can make it out. I also hear Liselotte has an amazing keynote speaker lined up that you will not want to miss! For more details about the event, be sure to visit Nordic VMUG site here.

Below is the topic that I will be presenting on but feel free to find me at the event if you are interested in talking about other topics that you may have on your mind.

Session Title: 

Harnessing the power of the vSphere API for the everyday Admin 

Session Abstract: 

In this session, you will get a brief introduction to the vSphere API and learn how to use and navigate it without needing to become a developer. Building on this foundation, we will then explore some of the different methods and tools that are available to a variety of audiences (vSphere Administrators, Developers, etc) when Automating against the vSphere API. Finally, we will take a look at some practical examples that demonstrates the vSphere API in action which you can then take back with you when you leave the session. 

Categories // Automation Tags // VMUG, vSphere API

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