Finally the VCP4 certification Welcome Kit arrived

Today, the official VCP4 certification arrived in the mail. Six months(!) did it take for VMware to send the papers. There's no visible sign on the certification to indicate that it was taken as part of the beta exam - except for the date in the lower left corner (July, 16th 2009) indicating that it was achieved before the official release in August 2009.

As a bonus, a free license for Workstation 7 was included in the package which is pretty cool.

VTSP 4 certified

Today, I passed the VTSP 4 (VMware Technical Sales Professional) certification. Apparently, for your company to keep VMware Enterprise Partner status, a minimum of 2 x VCP's, 2 x VSP's, and 2 x VTSP's are required. We have the first two accreditations well covered but needed the VTSP's - so I had to take one for the team together with a couple of the other guys ;-)

The achieve this certification, you need to pass six online tests which you can take at your own pace. These are available through Partner Central. There are self study guides with each test. We received a nice and sweet offer from our distributor to get a two day training session so we got it handled quick and easy...

Master VCP certification is on the way

The VCDX certification is rather complicated to acquire. You have to travel to take the exams (enterprise administration and design exam) and you have to submit a written report. This is all a bit too much of a hassle for most people. But now apparently, according to a post on Eric Sloof's site, there's a new VCP Master on the way which is obtained with a VCP and then only the Enterprise Administration exam.