For a long time, access to personal-use VCF licenses have been available to anyone with a VMUG Advantage membership as long as they also pass a VCP-VCF certification. However, until recently these licenses were only available for VCF 5.x, but now we also get licenses for VCF 9. I have tested them in my lab and they work fine.
More details about the VMUG Advantage membership can be found here: https://www.vmug.com/membership/vmug-advantage-membership/
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