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
- Storage Virtual Appliance Certification
- Graphics Certification
- Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA)
- Shared Pass-Through Graphics Certification
- PCIe Hot-Plug
- CIMPAT Certification for vSphere
- vSphere Distributed Services Engine
- vSphere Client Plug-in VCG Listing for vSphere 8.0
- vSphere Client Plug-in Certification
- vSAN Data Persistence platform - vDPp
- Virtual Volumes (vVols) Certification
- vDGA Certification
- VAIO - I/O Filter
- VAAI for NAS Certification
- Storage Certification
- Server Certification
- Quick Boot Certification
- PMem Certification
- Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Certification
- Key Management Server (KMS) Certification
- IOVP Certification for vSphere
- Hardware Support Manager (HSM) Certification
- Daemon Provider Certification
- Addon and Custom image Certification for vSphere
Desktop and App Virtualization
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
- Storage Virtual Appliance Certification
- Graphics Certification
- vSAN ReadyNode™ and Component Certification
- VMware Ready for vSAN
- Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA)
- Shared Pass-Through Graphics Certification
- PCIe Hot-Plug
- CIMPAT Certification for vSphere
- vSphere Distributed Services Engine
- vSphere Client Plug-in VCG Listing for vSphere 8.0
- vSphere Client Plug-in Certification
- vSAN ReadyNode™ and Component Certification
- vSAN Data Persistence platform - vDPp
- Virtual Volumes (vVols) Certification
- vDGA Certification
- VAIO - I/O Filter
- VAAI for NAS Certification
- Storage Certification
- Server Certification
- Quick Boot Certification
- PMem Certification
- Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Certification
- Key Management Server (KMS) Certification
- IOVP Certification for vSphere
- Hardware Support Manager (HSM) Certification
- Daemon Provider Certification
- Addon and Custom image Certification for vSphere
- VMware Cloud Foundation
Storage and Availability
Virtual Cloud Networking
Other Certifications:
- Partner Verified and Supported Products (PVSP) Program
- VIB Signing - Partner Supported
- vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in Questionnaire