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VMware Skyline Advisor Pro Technologist Badge

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VMware is offering free Skyline training and a Skyline badge. There are training modules and questions after each module. I spent around three hours to get through it all. Score at least 80% on the questions and you will earn the VMware Skyline Advisor Pro badge. The offical article for it called it a certification, but it’s deiniftely a badge. It took 6 days after I completed the course for it to show up on my Credly account. The course showed up on my course transcript summary in Customer Connect Learning. However, the badge did not display there and did not on myTransript at mylearn.vmware.com. All of my other certificates and badges are there.

Make sure to hit the ‘Complete video’ button after each video for it to count. At first, I did not and had to go back.
Should receive a check mark after each module is completed.
Completed.

The first three modules are unnecessarily repetitive. The last three modules dive into more areas: API, security, and vROps intergration. I got the most out of the vROps intergration module since I did not know this was possible. vROps can display a dashboard with a subset of Skyline data. Though, this module doesn’t go deep enough to be able to implement this intergration and the documentation I found is spotty. I will do a separate article on this topic.

I recommend all VMware users to go through this course. It’s definitely worth the time. I am sure everyone will get something out of it and receive a new, shiny badge.

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.