Hello again after a long absence. Recently, a lot has been happening, both professionally and otherwise. I’m returning to blogging about VCF and building a new version of my home lab—details on that soon. Today, let’s focus on organizing licenses. Over the past few days, anyone who holds a VCP VCF Admin or Architect certificate can obtain these licenses. Below, I’ll outline the requirements and the process.
Requirements:
- You must have passed the VCP VCF Admin or VCP VCF Architect exam.
- You must have an account on the VMUG portal (see below for how to make it match).
- You must have the same email address on both the Broadcom Support portal (with your certificates) and VMUG.
What do we get?
Of course, you receive 128-core licenses for the full VCF suite.
How to proceed:
- Change your email address in your VMUG account to match the one used on the Broadcom portal. To do this, send an email to advantage@vmug.com, requesting that your address be changed from X to Y. I waited about two hours; after that, I received a link prompting me to reset my password on VMUG.com.
- Once your email addresses match and everything is synchronized, you can request the license. Go to https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/alpine-certificate. After opening the page, submit a request for the license. Below is a screenshot of my own request:
As we can see, the process is underway. In my case, it took about an hour. When the status of the request changes, we will be notified by email:
After returning to the site, you’ll see the option to download both images and license keys.
As part of this, we receive licenses for the following products:
- VMware NSX 4 Networking
- VMware HCX Enterprise
- VMware SDDC Manager
- VMware Cloud Director
- VMware vCenter Server 8 Standard
- VMware Aria Operations Networks
- VMware vSphere 8 Enterprise Plus for VCF
- VMware Aria Suite Enterprise 8
- VMware Data Services Manager
- VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 8
- VMware HCX Advanced
- VMware vSAN 8
As you can see, there are plenty of licenses to explore.
In the next post, we’ll begin building Home Lab v2.
