JonSmith wrote:After passing on what I hoped would be enough information to warrant a custom license, I received no further emails since 04 December 2015.
Hi Jon, I have just actually read your post and I do see that I did responded to your e-mail:
The response was the following:
From: Alex Satler
Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 2:16 PM
To: apsg02@uk2.***
Subject: StarWind license
Hello Jon,
My name is Alex Satler – and I am senior account manager at StarWind Software.
I just read your post on our forum, and I understand you were trying to update to our most recent version 8 but that wouldn’t accept the old license key you have.
In your post you said that, “you were running StarWind in a test lab environment for trying out different SQL Server features, such as Clustering and Availability Groups, making use of vSAN as a way of loosely simulating SAN and Storage usage that you come across in the real world”
To help you more efficiently, I need to understand your need for running such tests. We actually run different programs and I will try to see if you could qualify for any of them in order to obtain NFR license for your test lab.
Also, it would help if you could let me know if you are any of the following:
• Microsoft MVPs
• MCTs (Microsoft Certified Trainers)
• MCPs (Microsoft Certified Professionals)
• SpiceHeads of at least “Jalapeno” level
• SpiceHeads of up to “Poblano” level
• Consultants
• Students
• VMware vExperts
• StarWind VSANCPs (StarWind VSAN Certified Professionals)
• VCPs (VMware Certified Professionals)
• Trainers
• Mangolassi members of reputation 200+
• Bloggers
Jon, please note that StarWind doesn’t provide direct technical assistance for any of its NFR free licenses.
If direct support would be nice to have, I think I may also offer a deal here. In case, if you run solution in non-critical production environment, you could benefit from 50% discount offer on any of our commercial licenses. Prices start as low as $1250 USD per license.
Also, if you need a commercial license for critical production environment, and tier 1 support is required, than I can offer you a fully functional commercial license and offer you 20% discount.
Please note: all discounts are valid till the end of December 2015 only.
In the meantime, I am pleased to offer you the 30-day trial license, which you may use to complete your upgrade.
Jon, please let me know how you wish to proceed and I would be happy to assist you accordingly.
Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any additional questions. It would be my pleasure to further assist you!
Please visit:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwi ... ense-users to request for NFR license
Please note that sales department has no way to offer any assistance to our clients using free editions and like I stated in my email, such support is offered on this forum, which I do hope you will enjoy using.