We’re pleased to announce the release of vSphere 8, the Enterprise Workload Platform. The new release means we’ll have new, updated vSphere 8 courses coming your way in December. Be sure to mark your calendar. Here are key facts you need to know.
- Software bundles link to related heads below
- Academic Evaluation Licenses
- Course content
- Course Labs
Software bundles
- In October VMware will start offering vSphere 8 software through the VMware evaluate portal, including a 30-day evaluation license key.
- The vSphere 7 software bundles will still be available for download for a limited time through a dedicated process for IT Academies.
Academic Evaluation Licenses
- We will start offering the vSphere 8 academic evaluation license keys both on Kivuto and Brightspace portals in the November 2022 timeframe.
- On that same day, the vSphere 7 academic evaluation license keys will start their end-of-life track and will be removed upon the next major release of vSphere.
- Also on December 1, 2022, the vSphere 6.7 academic evaluation license keys will complete their end-of-life track and will no longer be available.
Course content
- The new vSphere 8 courses will be released commercially in November.
- We aim to offer the new vSphere 8 courses in our academic portals (both Kivuto and Brightspace) on the December 1, 2022.
- For instructors, we will also offer a “What’s new: vSphere 7 to 8” course in the Train-the-Trainer group on VMware Customer Connect Learning.
- From the time we offer the new vSphere 8 courses, the vSphere 7 courses will start their end-of-life track, to be removed 1 year later.
Course labs
- Our academic lab partner NDG aims to offer the new vSphere 8 course labs through the latest version of Netlab+ and through their cloud lab offering in the March timeframe.
- NDG will also be able to support existing Netlab+ users with older vSphere software bundles to deploy their older Netlab+ deployments.
Certification exams
- The new PSE exam for the VCP-DCV certification based on vSphere 8 will be available in the January timeframe.
- At the same time as the launch of the new exam based on vSphere 8, the current PSE exam for the VCP-DCV certification based on vSphere 7 will start its end-of-life track and will be removed from the IT Academy exam catalogue 1 year later.
You’ll be seeing more news about key deadlines, FAQs, and even upcoming Train-the-Trainer courses in the coming days. Plus, you can get your questions answered directly during our bi-weekly Discovery Sessions by signing up here: https://www.vmware.com/learn/1258301_SUPPORT.html. Remember, don’t wait—start your migration to vSphere 8.
