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VMware Certified Design Expert

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Eric Sloof just confirmed my scoop in January with additional info on the certification:

The VMware Certified Design Engineer certification will be available later this year. The certification involved taking several courses and exams, including:

  • Courses
    Install and Configure
    DSA
    Design course (currently under development)
  • Exam
    VCP on VI3
    Enterprise Exam (currently in private beta)
    Design Exam (currently under development)

Once all of this has been completed the candidate must present a defensible design to a panel of VMware Solution Architects for consideration. As you may guess, this is a certification specifically targeted for VMware partners that will be assisting VMware in design and deployment and is only intended for a relatively small audience. That being said, the Enterprise Exam, which has a number of live lab style questions, should be available to the public in the next few months and may become part of a mid-line certification between VCP on VI3 and VCDX. That is also under consideration.

Jon C. Hall Technical Certification Developer VMware, Inc.

New VMware certification?

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Where’s the new VMware certification? I received an email about this “VMware Certified Design Expert” certification about two months ago? Beneath is what I received but I haven’t seen any new details since, although it clearly states “later this month”. Maybe you guys have?

A new advanced certification for design architects of enterprise deployments, VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDE), will be in beta toward the end of November. The VCDE measures the consultants ability to design, implement, document and test a VMware Infrastructure data center for the enterprise. Requirements for the VMware Certified Design Expert include:

  • VMware Certified Professional (VCP) on VMware Infrastructure 3
  • Pass a VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise level exam and a VMware Infrastructure 3 design exam
  • Submit, present and defend a successful virtual infrastructure design plan

Additional information will be posted to the VMware certification page later this month.

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Yellow Bricks is a personal Blog about virtualization(mostly VMware related) maintained by me, Duncan Epping. The name is derived from an Arctic Monkeys song, Old Yellow Bricks. Yellow Bricks are solid but flexible at the same time because you can build virtually anything. Same goes for virtualization, it provides you with a firm foundation while gaining flexibility at the same time. Yellow Bricks, building blocks for virtualization.

Short introduction used on other sites like LinkedIn. :

Duncan Epping is VMware’s Senior Director and Chief Technologist in EMEA for the Cloud Platform Business Unit with a primary focus on hyper-converged infrastructure and disaster recovery. In that role, he serves as a partner and trusted adviser to VMware’s customers and partners. Main responsibilities are ensuring VMware’s hyperconverged infrastructure and disaster recovery innovations align with essential customer needs and translating customer problems to opportunities. Duncan is a recognized leader in the technical community and considered one of the top 50 most influential leaders globally on the subject of Storage & Availability, virtualization, and cloud. He has 6 patents granted and 7 patents pending on the topic of availability, storage, and resource management.

Duncan was amongst the first VMware Certified Design Expert’s (VCDX007) and the main author and owner of VMware/Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com, which is one of the leading virtualization / hyper-converged / SDDC blogs. Duncan is a regular keynote speaker at industry events like IP EXPO, Partner Exchange and VMUG User Conferences globally. Duncan has presented at every VMworld in the US and Europe since 2009.

Disclaimer: The views expressed anywhere on this site are strictly mine and not the opinions and views of VMware. Some articles may contain references to the words master and/or slave. I recognize these as exclusionary words. The words are used in these articles for consistency because it’s currently the words that appear in the software, in the UI, and in the log files. When the software is updated to remove the words, the articles will be updated to be in alignment.