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
- VMware Partner Application Software Integration
- Host Profiles Certification for vSphere
- Storage Virtual Appliance Certification
- Graphics Certification
- vSphere Client Plug-in Certification
- Virtual Volumes (vVols) Certification
- Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA)
- vDGA Certification
- VAIO - I/O Filter
- VAAI for NAS Certification
- Storage Certification
- Shared Pass-Through Graphics Certification
- Server Certification
- Quick Boot Certification
- PMem Certification
- Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Certification
- PCIe Hot-Plug
- Key Management Server (KMS) Certification
- IOVP Certification for vSphere
- Hardware Support Manager (HSM) Certification
- CIMPAT Certification for vSphere
- Addon and Custom image Certification for vSphere
- Daemon Provider Certification
- vSAN Data Persistence platform - vDPp
Desktop and App Virtualization
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
- VMware Partner Application Software Integration
- Host Profiles Certification for vSphere
- Storage Virtual Appliance Certification
- Graphics Certification
- vSphere Client Plug-in Certification
- vSAN ReadyNode™ and Component Certification
- vSAN ReadyNode™ and Component Certification
- VMware Ready for vSAN
- Virtual Volumes (vVols) Certification
- Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA)
- vDGA Certification
- VAIO - I/O Filter
- VAAI for NAS Certification
- Storage Certification
- Shared Pass-Through Graphics Certification
- Server Certification
- Quick Boot Certification
- PMem Certification
- Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) Certification
- PCIe Hot-Plug
- Key Management Server (KMS) Certification
- IOVP Certification for vSphere
- Hardware Support Manager (HSM) Certification
- CIMPAT Certification for vSphere
- Addon and Custom image Certification for vSphere
- Daemon Provider Certification
- vSAN Data Persistence platform - vDPp
- 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