Starting a VMware vITA Academy

NASC & BiASC are Regional VMware IT Academies helping you to set up your own VMware IT Academy.

Starting your own WMware IT Academy requires the following steps as the VMware Academy coordinator designated by your educational institution:

• Academy Coordinator fills out the NASC/BiASC registration form:
  Link to VMware Regsitration Form 
• After  registration the Academy Coordinator informs <[email protected]> and <arie @biasc.be>
• The Academy Coordinator is then granted access by VMware and registers future VMware instructors
• Future instructor completes VMware Academy Instructor Training
• VMware instructor starts teaching VMware courses

What to do in more detail?

1. The academy coordinator registers the academy by filling out the online registration form.
   Link to VMware Regsitration Form  
2. NASC & BiASC will forward your vITA membership details to VMware.
3. You will be granted access by VMware within five days after forwarding.
4. The academy coordinator then registers local candidate instructors according to the procedure at the following weblink: http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-15017 
   Every instructor needs to be recorded separately. Before taking training all instructors need to be recorded.
5. Completing instructor training is essential to be able to start a student course at your own institution. After conluding Instructor Training from Regional Academy NASC & BiASC authorizes you to teach students classes. You can take the official VCP Certification exam with a discount voucher,but VCP certification is not required to teach student classes.

Apart from in-person instructor training, also remote blended learning using Telepresence and/or Webex or self-study using elearning materials are possible. No VCP voucher is offered in case of self-study.

Context & Background

Virtualisation is a major area of growth within the IT field and suffers from a significant skills shortage. VCP is VMware's first level of certification that focuses squarely on the vSphere virtualisation platform. Recipients should have the skills to install, deploy, scale and manage vSphere environments, as well as general virtualisation skills.  

As a result professionals with such skills can demand a high price for their knowledge and experience. The VMware IT Academy Program is an important component of VMware education programmes. The academic institutions that agree to participate in the VMware IT Academy Program fulfil an important role in providing VMware education worldwide. These academic institutions operate as business alliances of VMware with an objective of delivering educational services to their students. The VMware IT Academy Program is designed to introduce students to VMware technologies and equip them with VMware technical skills to complement their chosen fields of study. VMware will provide selected academic institutions with course materials developed by VMware for this purpose. By instituting this program, VMware seeks to create a collaborative relationship with academic institutions whereby their students may obtain the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) status and other VMware certifications.  

In cooperation with Stichting NASC, BiASC  is a Regional VMWare academy in Europe. Regional Academies are working closely with VMware to make the programme available to a wider audience. BiASC and NASC are able to help academies set up a VMware Academy and provide instructor training.    

The VMware IT Academy team has announced that all vITA need to be linked with a Regional Academy and it is only through such a link and attending their instructor training programmes will the instructors be eligible for the 100% discount certification voucher.