Recently I received mail from VMUG Advantage team on they are Introducing TestDrive to VMUG Advantage , and I was going through email and I found it is really interesting . New and exciting features is increased the value of the VMUG Advantage subscription and for any information about VMUG Advantage check official site. In this post , I will share information about VMware TestDrive and what are the benefits you will get from VMUG Advantage Subscriptions on TestDrive .
TestDrive provides VMUG Advantage members an exclusive opportunity to explore VMware’s products including Workspace ONE, Workspace ONE UEM (formerly VMware AirWatch), Horizon, vSAN, and Pivotal Container Service.
TestDrive offers users two experiences:
Additionally You can invite your customers to do Test Drive by providing access for a time period , currently you have 50 invites available .
Who can access the TestDrive ?
This is open to the following users:
Getting Started with TestDrive Environment
VMUG Advantage members can sign up for TestDrive using the email address associated with their VMUG membership. To signup browse to portal.vmtestdrive.com and click “Get Started” and provide the details . After completing the registration your credentials (if you select system generated password )or a verification link (if you selected your own password) will be emailed . In case you need any assistance please reach to testdrivehelp@vmware.com .
Click on the Get Started button to begin signup for TestDrive
Enter your VMUG Advantage subscriber email address and Click on Continue , You have provide requested information and set a password or choose system generated password
You will receive a mail to verify
Once your VMUG Advantage subscriber email address is confirmed , you will receive another email confirming the account has been provisioned and ready to login
Once you receive the confirming mail of account you can login to the TestDrive portal from portal https://portal.vmtestdrive.com/login
Once you Logged on to the portal , navigate to the My Products and you choose interested one and currently Integrate Public Clouds and Transform Security are not available and it will available in future .
Below are the resouces available on other two options
Empower Digital Workspace
You can see below options available here
Sandbox Experiences environments including Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) , VMware Identity Manager and AirWatch Express
Sample Integrations includes Dropbox ,Office 365 and Salesforce
Modernize Data Centers
Form this Tab you see the vSAN and PKS environments ready for use.
I have Started diving into some of these environments for a “Test Drive” from the portal . This new offering is really awesome and valuable top of other VMUG Advantage benefits that we already have .Having a VMUG Advantage subscription is really worth to have it and there is no change for subscription cost it remains the same.
Conclusion
We have shared the details of current offering of Testdrive with VMUG Advantage , this is really cool offering . If you don’t have to have a home lab, or other test environment this is very useful to test products and this is available on the cloud and available for consumption. You won’t find any other cost-effective way to try out many VMware softwares and have valid license keys for a year . If don’t have a VMUG Advantage subscription , you should go for it its worth because its not limiting to Software Products ,1 Year License and Test Drive you will get discounts on VMware certification exams, VMworld, training etc
