devanooga

A place for people that have (or are looking to have) a personal lab set up, usually for education or more amateur setups. For people looking to learn, explore and show off their labs.

Free/Cheap opportunities

The following is a list of software/hardware opportunities that are either free or relatively cheap compared to purchasing the product yourself, these are usually for lab/training only, please check the licensing terms.

Backup

• Veeam
  • NFR License - 1 year, 2 socket.

Networking

• Cisco
  • CSR 1000v - Free (very limited bandwidth ~10MB) when trial ends, good for learning (and not much else).
  • Meraki - Free hardware from watching webinars (SaaS trials).
  • UCS Emulator
• F5
  • Virtual Lab - $100 F5 Virtual Lab licenses.
• Sophos
  • UTM - Free home edition UTM.

Other

• Microsoft
  • Bizspark - Free software licenses for small startups.
  • Imagine - Free software licenses for students.
• Redhat
  • Developer Network - Access to Redhat products and repos, free RHEL activations.
• Unisys
  • ClearPath MCP Express
  • ClearPath OS 2200 Express

Storage

• EMC
  • Trial Downloads - Various EMC appliances available for evaluating.
• Nutanix
  • Community Edition

Virtualization

• VMWare
  • VMUG - $200/yr, access to vSphere Enterprise Plus, vCenter, VSAN and more for lab/training.