Eh, a week to crash course vSphere with unknown "plus to know"? You can learn ESXi + vCenter(vSphere) in a couple days, but you wont still "know it", just have exposure to it. I would start by pulling up ESXi and vCenter deployment videos and downloading the trials from vmware.com and star there. Source: about 1 year ago

I used the Feb 23 Dell vendor ISO from vmware.com and the upgrade went fine as expect. Source: about 1 year ago

Yes, I see it consists of the same products, but they are managed by that SDDC appliance. I just found a "VCF FAQ" at vmware.com, which answers some questions:. Source: about 1 year ago

Oh, you can try ESXi as a VM under Fusion, assuming an Intel-based Mac. Just register at vmware.com and download the beast. If you're curious. (There's also and ARM-based version of ESXi but, eh.) Of course "corporate" ESXi really becomes itself when you run it with all the complementary stuff and manage it using vCenter Server. Source: about 1 year ago

I used a Virtual Machine from vmware.com which worked. Source: over 1 year ago

Long term HN user @ezekg also runs this https://keygen.sh/ if that might suit your needs (i.e. If you want to separate out licensing logic from the payment logic). - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

Keygen | Front-end Engineer | Full- or part-time | Remote (US only) | https://keygen.sh Keygen is an open, source-available software licensing and distribution API built and run by myself. I'm a bit stretched thin in terms of front-end and support. I have a big front-end redesign code-named Portal on the roadmap that I haven't been able to make much progress on over the last couple years. I'm looking for somebody... - Source: Hacker News / 29 days ago

Absolutely lovely website you have at https://keygen.sh/ Did you write that as well or outsource it? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Took me a bit to realize it's licensing as in managing enterprise license keys 'C1B6DE-39A6E3...', not licensing as in MIT/GPL/etc. https://keygen.sh/ Does anyone know a minimal, alternative licensing solution appropriate for a tiny startup? One where the license key is the only form of user authentication. Is there a cheap service available? Or is it easy to roll a custom solution. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

I run a business called Keygen [^0], and own the @keygen namespace on npm. We’re working on a Node SDK, so this isn’t good to hear. I’ll open up a discussion with them and see what we can do. [^0]: https://keygen.sh. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago