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A modern web browser will be needed. The NEE “engine” and front-end is SaaS and is hosted by VMware. The cloud resources for the beta will also be hosted by VMware. In the past when we’ve setup internal tenants, they’ve been running courses within an hour of us handing over their credentials. Internet Explorer 10 or later, Firefox version 13 or later, Chrome version 18 or later

There are a few setup items you will have to complete prior to connecting to VMware's Learning Platform (VLP): Ensure that the address and port 443 of your API interface is on the public wire. This will probably require some coordination from your network team. The best way to test is to go to the following address from *outside* of the network: https://<your_cloud_host>/api/versions. If you get back a long XML document that starts with this line then you’re good: <SupportedVersions xmlns="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/versions" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.vmware.com/vcloud/versions http://<some_ip>/api/versions/schema/versions.xsd”> If you get an error or page not found or some other network error then the API interface is not properly exposed to the Internet.  Add the following 2 lines to the configuration file on each of the vCloud Director cells. consoleproxy.websockets.enabled = trueconsoleproxy.securenio.buffer.size = 17000 The full path to the file is $VCLOUD_HOME/etc/global.properties Restart the vCloud Director cell. Your vCloud Director should be ready to accept a connection from NEE. Note these other considerations: You have setup a vApp and put it in the catalog as a template. You have setup a vApp and put it in the catalog as a template. Access to credentials for an organization administrator. This will be used in VLP when you configure. Capacity to run the number of vApps or labs you want launched from VLP.

Yes successfully since 2011. The following list encompasses some of the departments that utilize VLP currently Engineering uses it to provide a harness to people wanting to develop plug-ins or other solutions for vSphere. Our field enablement group uses it to train our field and our partners. Our demo team uses it for demos at booths as well as our briefing centers. PSO Education uses it for instructor-led, self-paced, and extended learning content. Tech Marketing uses it for large events (VMworld Labs, etc) as well as a constant, free learning place for our products. Marketing uses it for demand generation. Such as "Click here to learn about XYZ. Next you get to try it out for free for 30 days in this lab. Etc." Support uses it to train our support staff as well as have labs they can bring down on-demand for customer troubleshooting and replication. Recruiting uses this to have testing environments for potential new hires.

VMware Learning Platform (VLP) is a complete learning environment which integrates instructional materials, rich VM labs (supporting almost any OS), video, social and more. It works in a standard browser with no plugins needed and nothing to install for the client or student. One can run VLP on virtually any device including tablets / mobile and is run in a cloud. VMware cloud services can be used, a third party cloud, a customer’s own private cloud or a combination of clouds.