So, I finally decided to take advantage of my VMUG advantage subscription and create a vCloud Air account. When you sign up for VMUG Advantage, there are a lot of perks that come with it. One of the many benefits is the EVALExperience, which gives you a 1 year evaluation license to quite a few VMware products.
One of those products is vCloud Air. They give you a $600 credit ($300 every 6 months) towards vCloud Air.
I wanted to try out William Lam’s ESXi appliance and see if I could deploy it there. Here’s a run down of what it takes to do it:
After logging into vCloud Air, I thought it was going to be a simple upload of the OVA file and deploy….wrong!
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