One of the most awesome parts of VMworld, at least in my opinion, is the Hands-on Labs.  There, you get to actually put the new product through its paces.

At VMworld 2012, one of our announcements (which I think kinda got lost in all of our other announcements) is that we’re going to make our Hands-on Labs available online.  Our first step towards that is live now: add yourself to our list for the public beta.  We’ll use this to figure out how much demand there actually is for this, and we’ll add people to the Hands-on Labs so that we can manage the experience and make sure that it’s all happily working for everyone.  So get on the list!

Full details are in the blog post announcing the public beta.