I have been trying to find documentation, recommendations on usage of NSX license for purely educational purposes. I have 3 different VMware account, first one as VMUG Advantage users, second as Premium Partner (due to my current job at IBM) and third one is ordinary account which I used to purchase/download VMware workstation. Now in my VMUG account I can download any VMware component, in my partner account, I can see there are vast number of options, so many options that I am scare to be lost in it if I start to explore, and in my ordinary account as normal user, I do not see VMware NSX as listed for EVAL download. Now, what I wanted is that to let my students to use my hardware server in cloud to deploy, practice vmware vSphere and NSX and delete it after usage. But I am very confused what VMware thinks of using NSX in such a way! Since preparing for NSX professional and higher certification requires exploring almost all the aspects of NSX it is needed to have enterprise version of NSX, and I am not running huge enterprise here, so buying 6995 USD / CPU NSX license is not viable solution for me either. I am looking if someone more educated in this area can enlighten me? Buysing VMUG advantage is one thing, but buying hardware (20 CPU threads plus 32+ GB of RAM just for NSX components) for running complete VMware NSX is another issue. I want to provide hardware which I have, but what to do about license for using on it for learning? I explored option of HOL (hands-on-lab) but as long as one does not deploy, prepare hosts from scratch, run API calls and such can not have thorough experience of NSX!
