{"id":324,"date":"2010-10-04T01:32:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T05:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2022-07-08T02:21:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T06:21:37","slug":"vmware-ready-management-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/vmware-ready-management-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Should Your VMware Management Solution Be VMware Ready Certified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Things_You_Need_to_Know\"><\/span>Things You Need to Know!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-329 size-full\" title=\"logo_vmware_ready_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/logo_vmware_ready_1.gif\" alt=\"VMware Ready logo\" width=\"125\" height=\"66\" \/>A couple of years back, VMware announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/in\/partners\/tech-alliance\/vmware-ready.html\">VMware Ready Management certification program<\/a> for management systems. This rigorous program provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Simplified management<\/strong> \u2013 simplify comprehensive management of virtual data center OS environments and across the enterprise with vCenter-integrated partner solutions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Integrated Solutions<\/strong> \u2013 vCenter and VMware Ready Management Solutions from partners for key management needs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interoperability<\/strong> \u2013 integrated through vCenter Extensibility with existing management solutions to streamline processes and reduce costs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unlike many other industry certification programs that offer a vendor certification upon payment, VMware does an extremely thorough job of evaluating a product, testing it under load, and even analyzing the product&#8217;s API calls to vCenter in order to determine whether the vendor&#8217;s products meet its expectations and best practices regarding how the vCenter third party APIs should be used.<\/p>\n<p>While there are close to a hundred vendors who offer management systems for the VMware eco-system, there are only seven solutions that have received the VMware Ready Management certification &#8211; see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/partners.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/partners.html<\/a>. <a href=\"\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/it-monitoring\">eG Enterprise<\/a> is of course one of them! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/company\/in-the-news\">See our joint announcement with VMware here<\/a> &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Of late, there have been many management vendors who have also claimed that they are VMware Ready certified &#8211; yet they do not appear on this certification list. How could that be?<\/p>\n<p>VMware Ready certification can be obtained for different aspects of the solution. One of the more straightforward ones is VMware Ready certification for Virtual Appliances (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/appliances\/partner\/vmware_ready.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">find out about this program here<\/a>). So if you have a management solution that could be installed as a virtual appliance on VMware vSphere, you could apply and receive VMware Ready certification. This is not very difficult &#8211; all it takes is that you use the VMware recommended tools to create the virtual appliance. This is what many vendors have done. The certification is for the Virtual Appliance &#8211; this DOES NOT mean that the management system is certified by VMware to use the recommended best practices for vCenter APIs.<\/p>\n<p>So if you are in the process of evaluating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eginnovations.com\/supported-technologies\/vmware-monitoring\">VMware monitoring<\/a> and management tools, don&#8217;t just go by the VMware Ready logo. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/partners\/alliances\/programs\/vmware-ready\/partnerships.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Make sure that the management system is certified by the VMware Ready Management program<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things You Need to Know! A couple of years back, VMware announced a VMware Ready Management certification program for management systems. This rigorous program provides: Simplified management \u2013 simplify comprehensive management of virtual data center OS environments and across the enterprise with vCenter-integrated partner solutions Integrated Solutions \u2013 vCenter and VMware Ready Management Solutions from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[277,278,285,287,288,289],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-monitoring","tag-virtualization-management","tag-virtualization-monitoring","tag-vmware-management","tag-vmware-monitoring","tag-vmware-performance-monitoring","tag-vmware-ready"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>VMware Ready Management Tool | eG Innovations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"VMware Ready Certification has been awarded to only 7 VMware management solutions. 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