VMware Certified Design Experts (VCDX) is an elite group of VMware Experts. VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has called it the “PhD” of VMware. As of July 31st 2023 there were 300 VCDX in the world. To put that number in perspective, there are fewer Representatives in the US House Of Representatives. According to this post from VMware, there are 350,793 VMware Certified Professionals (VCP) in the world. Unfortunately I was not able to find newer numbers. I would assume the number of VCPs have grown since then. The posted numbers appear to be from 2020. Going by those older numbers, still only 0.09% of all certified VMware Professionals are VCDX.
Disclaimer: I do not guarantee accuracy of the numbers presented. These numbers were collected from public available data. The data was collected on July 31st 2023.
There are four VCDX certification paths
- Data Center Virtualization (VCDX-DCV) | 211
- Cloud Management & Automation (VCDX-CMA) | 39
- Desktop and Mobility (VCDX-DTM) | 19
- Network Virtualization (VCDX-NV) | 92
- There are 42 VCDX that hold two VCDX certifications.
- There are 8 VCDX that hold three VCDX certifications.
- There is only 1 VCDX that holds all four VCDX certification.
If you would like to know more about each VCDX, the effort it takes to become a VCDX or more information about VCDX in general, go to https://vcdx.vmware.com
VCDX around the globe
The VMware Certified Design Experts are located in 36 countries.
| Americas | 165 |
| EMEA | 104 |
| Asia-Pacific | 31 |
VCDX distribution globally
VCDX in each country
VCDX per country capita
We get a different representation when we look at VCDX per country population, compared to a countries overall number of VCDX. This table shows the number of VCDX per ten million people of that country. A higher number means a higher representation of VCDX per capita in that country.
| Country | Count | Population | VCDX per 10m people |
| Iceland | 1 | 376,248 | 26.58 |
| Netherlands | 20 | 17,889,000 | 11.18 |
| Singapore | 5 | 5,637,000 | 8.87 |
| UAE | 7 | 9,282,410 | 7.54 |
| Australia | 17 | 26,666,400 | 6.38 |
| USA | 153 | 333,287,557 | 4.59 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 5,229,170 | 3.82 |
| UK | 26 | 68,138,484 | 3.82 |
| Norway | 2 | 5,488,984 | 3.64 |
| Qatar | 1 | 2,795,484 | 3.58 |
| Denmark | 2 | 5,935,619 | 3.37 |
| Israel | 3 | 9,759,680 | 3.07 |
| Sweden | 3 | 10,540,886 | 2.85 |
| Ireland | 2 | 7,052,314 | 2.84 |
| Canada | 10 | 39,858,480 | 2.51 |
| Lebanon | 1 | 5,296,814 | 1.89 |
| Czech Republic | 2 | 10,827,529 | 1.85 |
| Belgium | 2 | 11,697,557 | 1.71 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 6,447,710 | 1.55 |
| Germany | 12 | 84,270,625 | 1.42 |
| Austria | 1 | 9,027,999 | 1.11 |
| Poland | 4 | 38,036,118 | 1.05 |
| France | 6 | 68,042,591 | 0.88 |
| Italy | 4 | 58,853,482 | 0.68 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 19,398,331 | 0.52 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 23,894,394 | 0.42 |
| South Africa | 2 | 58,048,332 | 0.34 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 32,175,224 | 0.31 |
| Thailand | 1 | 69,648,117 | 0.14 |
| Egypt | 1 | 109,546,720 | 0.09 |
| Japan | 1 | 124,840,000 | 0.08 |
| Mexico | 1 | 129,875,529 | 0.08 |
| Russian Federation | 1 | 147,182,123 | 0.07 |
| Brazil | 1 | 203,062,512 | 0.05 |
| India | 2 | 1,428,627,663 | 0.01 |
VCDX in the United States
VCDX distribution in the United States
Other are all states combined that have less than five VCDX.
VCDX in each state of the United State of America
VCDX per state capita
This table shows the number of VCDX per one million people of that state. A higher number means a higher representation of VCDX per capita in that state.
| State | Count | Population | VCDX per 1m people |
| Colorado | 13 | 5,839,926 | 2.23 |
| District of Columbia* | 1 | 689,545 | 1.45 |
| California | 40 | 39,185,605 | 1.02 |
| Delaware | 1 | 1,018,396 | 0.98 |
| Maine | 1 | 1,362,359 | 0.73 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | 1,395,231 | 0.72 |
| Oregon | 3 | 4,246,155 | 0.71 |
| Minnesota | 4 | 5,717,184 | 0.70 |
| Virginia | 6 | 8,683,619 | 0.69 |
| New Jersey | 6 | 9,288,994 | 0.65 |
| Ohio | 7 | 11,780,017 | 0.59 |
| Massachusetts | 4 | 6,981,974 | 0.57 |
| North Carolina | 6 | 10,698,973 | 0.56 |
| Connecticut | 2 | 3,605,944 | 0.55 |
| Texas | 16 | 29,145,505 | 0.55 |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 5,893,718 | 0.51 |
| Maryland | 3 | 6,177,224 | 0.49 |
| Arizona | 3 | 7,151,502 | 0.42 |
| Illinois | 5 | 12,812,508 | 0.39 |
| Washington | 3 | 7,785,786 | 0.39 |
| Georgia | 4 | 10,711,908 | 0.37 |
| Utah | 1 | 3,271,616 | 0.31 |
| Michigan | 3 | 10,077,331 | 0.30 |
| Indiana | 2 | 6,785,528 | 0.29 |
| Tennessee | 2 | 7,051,339 | 0.28 |
| Florida | 6 | 22,244,823 | 0.27 |
| New York | 5 | 19,677,151 | 0.25 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | 13,002,700 | 0.15 |
*District of Columbia is not a state but I didn’t want to omit it from the statistics.
VCDX by company
VCDX distribution by company
Companies that have less than three VCDX were combined.
VCDX at each company
| Company | Count |
| VMware | 121 |
| Nutanix | 19 |
| AWS | 12 |
| Dell | 8 |
| Cisco | 5 |
| Aviatrix | 4 |
| End-2-End Enterprise Architecture (E2EEA) | 4 |
| ITQ Consultancy BV | 4 |
| 3 | |
| Microsoft | 3 |
| Oracle | 3 |
| Rolta AdvizeX | 3 |
| Rubrik | 3 |
| World Wide Technology | 3 |
| Atos IT Services | 2 |
| comdivision consulting GmbH | 2 |
| Computacenter | 2 |
| Dimension Data | 2 |
| EMC | 2 |
| ePlus Technology | 2 |
| IBM | 2 |
| NetApp | 2 |
| No Company | 2 |
| Palo Alto Networks | 2 |
| RoundTower Technologies | 2 |
| Varrow | 2 |
| WestJet | 2 |
| ACP IT Solutions AG | 1 |
| Acredion | 1 |
| Ahead | 1 |
| Arista Networks | 1 |
| Assyrus Srl | 1 |
| Atlantis Computing | 1 |
| August Schell | 1 |
| Barefoot Networks | 1 |
| BlackRock | 1 |
| Canadian Armed Forces | 1 |
| Capgemini | 1 |
| CDI LLC | 1 |
| CGI | 1 |
| Charter Communications | 1 |
| Cohesity | 1 |
| CompuNet, Inc | 1 |
| Curator Systems | 1 |
| Datacentrix (Pty) Ltd | 1 |
| Datrium | 1 |
| Deloitte | 1 |
| DOME | 1 |
| env0 | 1 |
| Equinix | 1 |
| Expedient | 1 |
| FlexConsulting.Services | 1 |
| ForgeRock | 1 |
| Forsythe Solutions | 1 |
| GitLab | 1 |
| HCL Technologies | 1 |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise | 1 |
| Hitachi Data Systems | 1 |
| hqVirtual B.V. | 1 |
| Hydra 1303 | 1 |
| InterCloud Systems Inc. | 1 |
| Intesa Sanpaolo SpA | 1 |
| Iono Solutions, Inc | 1 |
| Iron Bow Technologies | 1 |
| Isovalent | 1 |
| Kloud Solutions | 1 |
| Long View Systems | 1 |
| Lucinity | 1 |
| Network to Code | 1 |
| nPivot | 1 |
| NVIDIA | 1 |
| OGD ict-diensten | 1 |
| OPEN Technologies | 1 |
| PernixData | 1 |
| 1 | |
| Pivotal | 1 |
| Pure Storage | 1 |
| Rapid | 1 |
| Roeleveld Cloud Services | 1 |
| Runecast | 1 |
| Self-Employed | 1 |
| SES Corporation | 1 |
| Siemens | 1 |
| Simplivity | 1 |
| Sirius Computer Solutions | 1 |
| SoftServe | 1 |
| SovLabs | 1 |
| SPJ Solutions Inc | 1 |
| Starbucks | 1 |
| Stratascale | 1 |
| SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH | 1 |
| Sysdig | 1 |
| team.blue | 1 |
| Teck Resources Ltd. | 1 |
| Transitional Data Services – TDS | 1 |
| Truesec AB | 1 |
| UnitedLex | 1 |
| UPMC | 1 |
| Vestas | 1 |
| viLogics, Inc | 1 |
| Virtustream | 1 |
| VMXperts | 1 |
| WEI | 1 |
| Winslow Technology Group, LLC | 1 |
| Xentaurs | 1 |
| Zscaler | 1 |
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