VMware recently announced the availability of the vRealize Automation Blueprint Certification Program. This free certification program is available to all TAP members.
The VMware vRealize Automation Certification Program enables Technology Alliance Partners to certify partner-created blueprints for use with vRealize Automation. VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) provides a secure portal where authorized administrators, developers or business users can request new IT services and manage specific cloud and IT resources, while ensuring compliance with business policies. Requests for IT service, including infrastructure, applications, desktops and many others, are processed through a common service catalog to provide a consistent user experience despite underlying heterogeneous infrastructure. This program certifies blueprints for use in vRA.
About the Program
The vRA blueprint certification is an automated certification using VMware’s Learning Platform cloud environment. This enables TAP members to run certification tests in a VMware pre-configured and ready-to-use certification test bed in the cloud. The test bed is set up with vRealize Automation, vCenter, ESXi and certification tools that are pre-configured to run the certification tests. Technology Alliance Partners will upload their solution to the environment, configure their solution and perform automated tests on their solution in the cloud.
Why Should You Join?
Blueprints are an important entity with vRA. They define how to provision and manage the lifecycle of resources in vRA and can be considered the specification of the resources that should be deployed. As a specification, they describe a virtual machine that can be deployed on infrastructure consisting of different hypervisors. Blueprints provide vRA users the ability to actualize virtual machines and applications. Each unique blueprint embodies unique topology, with dependencies and content that has to be validated for such aspects. The program provides blueprint certification that validates the steps and guidelines that can be used to assure customers that blueprints can function before they are deployed.
Once certification is complete, Technology Alliance Partners have the ability to list their blueprint on the VMware Solution Exchange Marketplace with the VMware Ready Logo for Management and Orchestration.
Getting Started
A full list of requirements for the program can be found on VMware {code}.
To get started and express interest in enrolling in the VMware Ready Program, complete the online Partner Onboarding Form. Select “vRealize Automation Blueprint Certification” in the Program Name field.
Visit VMware {code} for additional program resources, including SDKs, APIs and other certification tools.
