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VMware Education and Communities Website Changes

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There has been some big changes in the past week with migrating various VMware websites to the Broadcom side. Let’s start off with education. There’s a new education portal called CertMetrics, which is where you can view your existing VMware certifications, schedule exams, and view previously taken trainings. The training history was originally not going to be migrated over so I am glad to see it was. VCP and VCAP certifications are now $250 each. My favorite change is that an official training class is no longer required to be certified. No more $4000+ week long class if you don’t want to do it. Now only passing the VCP exam will earn the cert. This is a huge cost savings and levels the playing field for new people to get into VMware products. Though, definitely worth taking a class if you have the opportunity. A couple of other changes to quickly mention: security advisories are now within the support portal and Flings are now accessible through the communities portal. By the way, if you are not thrilled like me to all of a sudden receive daily digest emails from Broadcom, you can unsubscribe from here.

VMware Training and VCPs/VCAPs Stats

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VMware is giving away a free 6 month premium subscription to VMware Learning Zone for everyone. You need to register by November 6, 2020 and your subscription will expire 6 months after you register. That makes it easier to plan ahead to take advantage of a time frame that works best for you. You can even sign up with a personal email address. Check out the official article from VMware for more details and how to register.

VMware released details on the amount of VCPs and VCAPs. I like looking at statistics and it’s fascinating when vendors release numbers on certification holders. VMware last did this a few years ago. Unfortunately, I could not find the past numbers directly from VMware, but I did find it on vInfrastructure Blog. I will reference the data from the aforementioned sites in this article.

There are only 3,850 VCAPs in the United States and a total of 13,580 around the world. There are 98,576 VCPs in the United States and a total of 335,371 VCPs around the world. VCAPs have nearly tripled in the past few years and over 6 times more VCPs. I wonder if that is due to VMware changing their strict 2 year expiration on VCP certs.

The United States is on par with the world total of only roughly 4% of VCPs going ahead to achieve the VCAP certification. There are some overachieving countries like Egypt, which has 10% of VCPs getting their VCAP. Hopefully, VMware will give a list of totals in all countries. I made a comment requesting additional data and I will edit this article if I receive it.