Horizon Ready Hypervisor
Overview
This Program enables hypervisor product (software) manufacturers to work with Omnissa to ensure that their hypervisor products (“Partner Software”) are compatible with Horizon (in Manual Provisioning Mode).
As organizations increasingly adopt a diverse set of infrastructure platforms, there is growing demand for flexibility in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments. To meet this need, Omnissa is launching a certification program for third-party hypervisors to certify with Omnissa Horizon using Manual Provisioning Mode.
This program is designed for hypervisor product vendors who want to validate the compatibility of their platforms with Horizon 8. Manual Provisioning Mode enables Horizon to broker connections to workloads that are provisioned and managed outside of Horizon's native automation capabilities such as persistent virtual machines or even physical desktops offering organizations the flexibility to leverage non-standard or unsupported platforms while still delivering a consistent end-user experience.
The Horizon Ready Hypervisor certification program supports enabling technology partners to certify their hypervisor products with the Omnissa Horizon product (in Manual Provisioning Mode), ensuring stable performance and supportability. Details of Manual Provisioning Mode are described here.
The program requires partners to execute a prescribed set of product certification test cases provided by Omnissa and submit results for review to Omnissa. Omnissa team will review and approve the results. Approved results will be posted by Omnissa team on Omnissa Horizon Ready Hypervisor Compatibility guide (OCG). This listing signifies that the product certification was successfully completed and the product is compatible with Horizon (in Manual Provisioning Mode) and supported by Omnissa.
Upon successful completion of the Omnissa Horizon Ready Hypervisor certification process, Partners can market and leverage the Omnissa Ready™ Horizon logo in their marketing and sales efforts. Omnissa-certified Partner Software is posted on the Omnissa Horizon Ready Hypervisor Compatibility Guide (OCG). This signifies joint support for end users that deploy certified Partner Software with Horizon (in Manual Provisioning Mode) solutions.
Program access includes the tools and resources needed during the development and release phases.
Access to the Horizon Binaries
- Partners receive access to the Horizon product binaries including Horizon Client for Windows, Horizon Agent for Windows, Horizon Agent for Linux and Horizon product binaries for testing their hypervisor product with Horizon
Certification guides
- The partner product certification guides describe the certification procedures and test cases for certifying hypervisor product with Horizon solutions.
Compatibility guide posting
- Upon successful certification, the partner works with Omnissa program team to update the compatibility guide entry. Once the partner's products are certified with Horizon under the terms of the program, the partner may use the Omnissa Ready™ Horizon logo in product collateral as per guidelines.
Program communication
- Ongoing program communications pertaining to updated Horizon/Horizon Clients and associated milestones.
This program supports the following product versions:
| Horizon | 2506 and above |
Target audience
The program supports the following type of integrations:
- Hypervisor - Horizon working on Hypervisor without any API request for provisioning. Hypervisor supporting pre-provisioned VMs (virtual machines)/Manual provisioning mode
Roles and responsibilities
Partners who participate in the program provide the following team members:
- A partner program manager that acts as the primary point of contact on behalf of their team, and who acts as the lead for planning and issue prioritization.
- A partner technical support contact that manages the support relationship, owns and serves as a single point of contact for all support-related activities, including escalations, and ensures overall support readiness and training of the partner's support organization.
Related programs
- EUC Integration program
- Thin Client program
Pricing & requirements
There is no fee to join this program. Join by emailing tap.support@omnissa.com.
This program is governed by the following requirements:
- Maintain current Technology Partner membership status
- Fully execute required program agreements
- Participation in the program requires a successful certification and posting of the corresponding Hypervisor solution on the Compatibility guide
- Adherence to product support requirements as documented in the program guide
- General support on Horizon is purchased separately
Branding
- Ready Status: Eligible
- Ready Category: Omnissa Ready – Horizon
- The certifications in this program lead to listings on the compatibility guide
- Partner Ready Status: Not Eligible
Support
Support for partner product certification. Joint support for partner products listed on compatibility guide.
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