Lifecycle Policy
For VMware Workbench, Development Kits, and Certification Kits Lifecycle Policy, please refer to our policy page here.
Gated Certifications
Some SDKs and Certification Kits are made available only through certain offerings and programs.
Certifications: IO Device Driver, Storage and Server Certification Kits
The certification kits provide a test suite which allows partners to provide a measure of reliability and stability of their VMware code. VMware verifies that the results support the partner during the certification process.
Software-Defined Data Center
Cloud Management
Compute Virtualization
- Flash Certification
- VSA Certification
- Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA) Certification for vSphere
- Storage Virtual Appliance Certification
- Storage Certification
- VXLan Offload Certification
- VMware Partner Application Software Integration
- Virtual Volumes (VVols) Certification
- SRIOV Certification
- Shared Pass-Through Graphics Certification
- Large DRAM Certification
- vSphere Web Client Plug-in Certification
- vSphere APIs for IO Filtering Certification
- vDGA Certification
- VASA Certification
- VAAI NAS Certification
- Server Certification
- RoCE Certification
- PSA Certification
- Large DRAM Certification 8-12TB
- Large DRAM Certification 6TB
- Key Management Server (KMS) Certification
- I/O Device Certification
- Host Profiles Certification for vSphere
- Geneve Offload Certification
- CIMPAT Certification for vSphere
- PMem Certification
- IOVP Certification for vSphere
- Graphics Certification
- Extended Configuration Maximum Certification
- Quick Boot Certification
- PCIe Hot-Plug
- Hardware Support Manager (HSM) Certification
- Daemon Provider Certification
- Addon and Custom image Certification for vSphere
Desktop and App Virtualization
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
- Flash Certification
- VSA Certification
- Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA) Certification for vSphere
- Storage Virtual Appliance Certification
- Storage Certification
- VXLan Offload Certification
- VMware Partner Application Software Integration
- Virtual Volumes (VVols) Certification
- SRIOV Certification
- Shared Pass-Through Graphics Certification
- Large DRAM Certification
- vSphere Web Client Plug-in Certification
- vSphere APIs for IO Filtering Certification
- vDGA Certification
- VASA Certification
- VAAI NAS Certification
- Server Certification
- RoCE Certification
- PSA Certification
- Large DRAM Certification 8-12TB
- Large DRAM Certification 6TB
- Key Management Server (KMS) Certification
- I/O Device Certification
- Host Profiles Certification for vSphere
- Geneve Offload Certification
- CIMPAT Certification for vSphere
- VMware Ready for vSAN
- vSAN ReadyNode™ and Component Certification
- PMem Certification
- IOVP Certification for vSphere
- Graphics Certification
- Extended Configuration Maximum Certification
- vSAN ReadyNode™ and Component Certification
- Quick Boot Certification
- PCIe Hot-Plug
- Hardware Support Manager (HSM) Certification
- Daemon Provider Certification
- Addon and Custom image Certification for vSphere
- VMware Cloud Foundation
Storage and Availability
Other Platform
- VMware Validated Design Certified Partner Architecture
- SampleServiceVM
- VMware Tanzu Partner Application Program
- VMware Cloud Foundation Certification
- Thin Client
- Horizon Access
- NetX with NSX-V Certification
- EPSec with NSX-V Certification
- NSX-V Certification for vSphere
- VWware Tools needed for EPSec Certifcation (Windows 10)
Other Certifications:
- Partner Verified and Supported Products (PVSP) Program
- VIB Signing - Partner Supported
- vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in Questionnaire