FAQs
and Restrictions

FAQs and Restrictions

General Questions

This is a trial of the Workload Advanced Bundle, which includes:

  1. Next-Gen AV
  2. Behavioral EDR
  3. Vulnerability Management
  4. Audit and Remediation
  5. Workload Inventory
  6. Lifecycle Management
  7. vCenter Plug-in for vSphere and VMware Cloud workloads
  8. Manage ephemeral AWS instances
  9. List of AWS EC2 instances with rich meta-data
  10. AWS management functions (search/export
  11. Additional search fields for AWS
  12. Onboard single or multiple AWS accounts
  13. Auto-generate CI/CD deployment for AWS workloads

a. December 23, 2022.

a. Eligible participants who sign up with their VMware Email Account will receive email communications within minutes of registering with information on how to download the product.

a. Participants have 90 days to use the trial after activation.

  1. Participants are encouraged to follow their usual process for contacting the VMware support team as they navigate the onboarding process. Basic support terms apply (Mon-Fri, 8-5PM local time).
  2. You can also visit the VVMware Carbon Black Workload User Exchange page for more resources.

Technical Requirements

  1. The trial is available for current AWS, vSphere (v6.5 or above),and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) customers. Carbon Black customers can also participate in the trial by using a different email than their Carbon Black Cloud license.
  2. Organizations located in China, Russia, or an embargoed country as detailed here [https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/country-guidance/sanctioned-destinations], in addition to any organization subject to sanctions by the United States government, are ineligible for this Trial Offer.

If using vSphere


All Customers:

  • Internet connection to the Carbon Black Cloud

For vSphere Customers

  • vSphere 6.5 or higher
  • VCenter 6.7 or higher
  • VM Tools 11.2 or higher

For VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Customers:

  • VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0 and above

For AWS Customers

  • Ability to create IAM roles and assign permission
  • CloudTrail enabled on AWS account
  • EventBridge configured on AWS account

Email us at workloadtrial@vmware.com with any questions.