Onboarding Overview: VCE Vblock Certifications

Onboarding Overview:
VCE Vblock Certifications
Superna is authorized by VCE to
provide three types of
certifications for the Vblock
converged infrastructure. These
include: VCE Vblock™ Ready
Certification Service to certify an
application on Vblock; VCE
Validation Ready™ to simplify
compliance with industry
standards such as HIPAA, PCI,
FedRAMP and ITSG; and VCE
Vision Ready™ to certify vendor
solutions that leverages VCE
Vision.
Vblock Ready
To accelerate the migration to the Vblock
converged infrastructure, Superna offers
certification testing to assess an Independent
Software Vendor or Hardware Vendor
(ISV/HSV) solutions ability to meet VCE’s
criteria for entrance into the VCE
TM Technology Alliance Partner
Program. ISV/HSV’s can submit their product
for certification testing and logo program
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Vision Ready
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usage as part of the Technology Alliance
Program
Vision Ready
VCE Vision software has multiple API features that
a third-party application can use. The application
does not need to utilize all APIs to become certified
and can utilize the APIs based on the product’s
functionality. The certification process has success
criteria associated with functional areas of the
system and certification test cases will be
developed based on the candidate application and
its use of specific APIs and functional areas.
Validation Ready
The VCE Validation Ready™ Program is designed
to simplify and reduce the cost of Proof of
Concepts and Compliance Validation. It’s all about
streamlining the time to validate the converged
infrastructure that runs mission critical work loads
and complies with standards best practices. The
program has been designed to address reference
architectures that require compliance with
Industry standards such as HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP,
ITSG and more.
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VCE Certified Vblock 700LX Configuration RCM 2.5
Compute:
• 2 x Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
• 4 x Cisco UCS B-Series Blades
• Cisco M81KR Virtual Interface Card converged
network adapter
• Cisco UCS 2104XP Series Fabric Extenders
• Cisco UCS 6248UP Series Fabric Interconnects
Network:
• Cisco Nexus 5548UP Series Ethernet switches
• Cisco MDS 9148 Multilayer Fabric Switch
• Cisco Nexus 1000V Series virtual switch
Storage:
• EMC Symmetrix VMAXe
• Fully Ethernet and FC SRDF Operational
Virtualization:
• Virtualization VMware ESXi, VMware vCenter
Server
Management:
• EMC PowerPath/VE, Cisco UCS Manager,
Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS),
EMC Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager
(UIM), EMC Secure Remote Support (ESRS) on
Windows, EMC Symmetrix Management
Console (SMC) on Windows, EMC Symmetrix
Performance Analyzer (SPA) on Windows,
VMware vSphere Server Enterprise Plus
Minimum Entrance
Criteria
Application Solutions
manual intervention. ISV are installed as per vendors
documentation with on site or remote access to Superna’s
lab prior to testing beginning.
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Minimum Entrance
Criteria
Operation Solutions
Applications – “Runs with a Vblock ”
This service option is a service aimed to validate ISV’s
software products that integrates with Vblock components
to monitor, manage, provision, and extend feature sets of
existing management modules included with Vblock
products.
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Applications – “Runs on a Vblock”
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This service option is a comprehensive set of tests that
validate a solutions ability to run on Vblock under normal
operating conditions and failure scenario’s to ensure that
the solution recovers, performs normally, and raises faults to
administrators for critical operational procedures without
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If the application runs on a Vblock™ Infrastructures
Platform, it must be virtualized using the currently
supported VMware hypervisor
The application functions as designed and
advertised
The application must not interfere with the
functional aspects of a Vblock system
The application must not adversely impact
performance of a Vblock system
The candidate must adhere to industry best
practices surrounding patch maintenance and
release strategies
The application must run on all versions of Vblock™
Infrastructure Platforms
Examples: Database Applications, Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure Software, Virtually Hosted
Applications
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If the application runs on a Vblock™ Infrastructure
Platforms, it must be virtualized using the currently
supported VMware hypervisor
The application functions as designed and
advertised
The application must not interfere with the
functional aspects of a Vblock system
The application must not adversely impact
performance of a Vblock system
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If the application interfaces with any Vblock™
Infrastructure Platforms components, it must use
industry standard and VCE supported security
mechanisms and protocols
The candidate must adhere to industry best
practices surrounding patch maintenance and
release strategies
The application must run on all versions of Vblock™
Infrastructure Platforms unless it was designed to
meet the needs on a specific platform.
The application must work with all of the
components as described in the official Vblock™
Infrastructure Platforms bill of material – No
individual component may be replaced.
Examples: PaaS/IaaS Solutions that provision and
managed Vblock resources, Vblock monitoring
software.
Certification
Documents
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Certification Test and Final Report issued
containing outline of test procedure, test steps,
results and value added recommendations and
issued and archived.
Press release template issued
‘Vblock Ready’ logo and logo usage guidelines
issued.
Document with product name and version
certified for customers
VCE database updated with product
information, release number, link to project
space and report
To contact us regarding any of the services and
solutions please send an email to [email protected].
About Superna
Superna is a world-class software solutions and data
center certification provider. Superna Software delivers
orchestration, security and analytics for disaster
recovery and converged infrastructure. Superna
Certification is designed for organizations that need to
validate that their solutions will interoperate with EMC,
VCE, HP, VMware and Brocade systems. Superna
operates a unique global certification center that is fully
endorsed by our partners to their standards. Superna is
based in Ottawa, Canada, Marlborough, MA, USA, with a
presence in Romania and Singapore. For the last two
years,
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