With this new promo you get Free On Line training from VMware when you buy vSphere Essentials or vSphere Essentials Plus.
There is a new offer on VMware Website concerning free training offer. You can get Free Training when you purchase OnLine or through a reseller. This offer is only for VMware vSphere Essentials and Essentials Plus Kits.
The offer started the 8th of March and it ends on 15th of September 2011. You cannot benefit if you ordered through EMC or if you're an OEM partner. Also the offer is limited to one eligible order per customer.
It works also for an upgrades. For example if you bought VMware vSphere Essentials and you want to buy an upgrade to vSphere Essentials Plus, you can profit this Free training too.
The trainings will start at April and if you buy any of the VMware vSphere Essentials Kits between now and the 15th of September you'll receive an education token to be able to follow this training.
Please note that those trainings will be available in English language only.
A quick quote from the offer:
Customers who place an eligible order received by VMware during the promotion period (from March 8, 2011 to September 15, 2011) will receive redemption tokens in April, when the training course is launched, or weekly thereafter through the end of the promotion period.
This promotion is effective from March 8, 2011 through September 15, 2011 at midnight Pacific Time (PT); Customers will have until November 15, 2011 to redeem their tokens.
– Free online training course on vSphere Fundamentals for SMB.
– You will qualify to receive an Education Token which can be used to redeem the applicable free online training course on vSphere Fundamentals for SMB.
You can read the FAQ here.
What will you get when you buy VMware vSphere Essential Plus Kit package?
VMware vSphere 4.1 Essentials Plus Kit for 3 hosts (Max 2 processors per host and 6 cores per processor) + Production (24×7 for Severity 1 issues) 1 Year Support
Cost-effective availability and data protection for small offices
VMware vSphere 4 Essentials Plus provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to virtualize three physical servers to reduce hardware costs while ensuring superior high application availability and data protection.
With the vSphere Essentials Plus kit, you can:
- Reduce capital and operating costs by over 50%
- Improve availability and uptime for business critical applications
- Cut the deployment time of new servers from weeks to hours
VMware vSphere Essentials Plus includes:
- VMware ESXi or VMware ESX hypervisor architecture (deployment-time choice, VMware recommends the ESXi hypervisor architecture)
- VMFS (Virtual Machine File System)
- 4-way Virtual SMP
- VMware vCenter Server Agent
- VMware vStorage APIs / VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
- VMware Update Manager
- VMware High Availability (HA)
- VMware Data Recovery
- VMware vCenter Server for Essentials
- VMware vMotion
