Rapid Desktop (Horizon FastTrack)
(No longer available. VCG listings will stay until End of technical guidance of EUC products)
NOTE: This program is no longer accepting certification requests. The compatibility guides will be kept active until Horizon 7.x reaches end of technical guidance.
The Horizon Fast Track Package (formerly called Rapid Desktop and Fast Track Program) includes certification/validation for three types of solutions from our technology partners, Turnkey Appliances, Validated Reference Architectures and Proven Storage solutions. These take the guess work out of deploying Horizon and ensure fast deployments with predictable results and costs.
Rapid Desktop Appliances (Turnkey Appliances) with pre-integrated, pre-configured, pre-tested, and validated software, storage and components offer a one-stop shop for Horizon deployment. Validated Reference Architectures provide standard, repeatable, and scalable designs for quickly and easily deploying Horizon with a customer's vendor of choice. Proven Storage solutions are certified to offer specific workload performance for 1000 and 2000 seat Horizon deployments.
Overview
The goal of the Horizon Fast Track package (formerly called Rapid Desktop and Fast Track program) is to accelerate the adoption of View by enabling an ecosystem of pre-assembled, easily organized certified appliances, validated reference architectures and certified storage solutions. The package includes the following three individual certifications/validations:
- Turnkey Appliances certification
- Proven Storage certification
- Validated Reference Architectures
This package is available as part of the EUC Foundation Program
Key Benefits
- Certification
The program includes access to the Horizon Fast Track package's Certification Kit allowing partners to test and certify/validate their Horizon based solutions.
- Cobranding and Co-marketing
Upon successful certification/validation, products will be listed on the marketing website. The marketing websites are exclusively created for this program on the Marketplace. There is one entry for each type of certification/validation.
- Compatibility Guide (VCG) posting
Upon successful certification, the partner works with Ecosystem Services to update the respective Compatibility Guide entry or as per the program guide for Turnkey Appliances and Proven Storage.
Fulfillment of all certification specific prerequisites
Turnkey Appliances must be assembled from ESX certified individual components (server, storage, etc) as listed on the various component ESX VCGs.
Validated Reference architectures must be composed from ESX certified individual components (server, storage, etc.) as listed on the various component ESX VCGs.
In the Proven Storage certification, the storage and all other individual components used (server, etc.) must be ESX certified and listed on the various component ESX VCGs.
Versions Supported
This program supports the following product versions:
| Horizon (with View) | 7.x |
| View Planner/Horizon Planner | 4.x |
Not available Horizon 2006 onwards since support is now determined by interoperability matrix between Horizon Enterprise versions and certified ESX/vSphere versions.
Target Audience
- OEMs, Channel Partners, Storage partners, Solution Providers and Consulting and Integration Partner Program (CIPP) members capable of providing or partnering to provide, a full Horizon POC solution, a production ready Horizon Appliance or a Horizon reference architecture.
- Storage partners who would like to certify their storage solutions with specific workload performance for Horizon deployments.
Roles and Responsibilities
Partners who participate in the program provide the following team members:
A partner program manager who acts as the primary point of contact on behalf of the team and who acts as the lead for planning and issue prioritization with Omnissa.
Branding
Ready Status: Eligible
Ready Category:
Ready Logo for Certified Turnkey Appliances (Rapid Desktop Appliances)
Ready Logo for Certified Proven Storage
Validated Reference Architectures are not eligible for Omnissa Ready logo
Partner Ready Status: Not Eligible
Support
We offer a wide variety of partner programs under the Platform Extensibility Program Agreement (the “Agreement”) for hardware and software development relating to integration. To complement these programs, we offer support services aligned with various programs providing access to experienced resources.