Access to U.S. Citizen / U.S. Soil support exclusively for U.S. Federal customers
- Receive included coverage for eligible products when purchasing from the U.S. Federal price list / GSA schedule through VMware’s authorized Government Dealer.
- Interact with experienced technical support engineers with U.S. citizenship, located on U.S. soil.
- Gain direct access to the dedicated U.S. Federal technical support team through an exclusive 1-800 number.
This enhancement to our standard support offerings is provided under our U.S. Federal government product warranty and is available only to customers who purchased their licenses from the U.S. Federal price list or GSA schedule through VMware’s authorized Government Dealer. It requires no additional support contract.
U.S. Federal Technical Support does not include specialized service level agreements (SLAs). All the SLAs are dictated by the support offering that was purchased from the U.S. Federal price list or GSA schedule. Please refer to the SLAs that have been defined for VMware’s standard support offerings.
| Support Offering | U.S. Federal Technical Support Applies |
|---|---|
| Production Support | Yes |
| Mission Critical Support | No. This offering is not yet available to U.S. Federal customers. |
| Business Critical Support | Only available to U.S. Federal customers who purchased this support offering before October 1, 2010. |
| Basic Support | Yes |
| Saas Production Support | No |
| Developer Support for vFabric (SpringSource) | Yes |
| SDK Support Program for vSphere | Yes |
| Per Incident Support | Yes |
| Silver Support | No |
| Fusion Desktop Standard Support | Yes |
| Complimentary Support | Yes |
| Evaluation Support | No |
| Beta | No |
| vFabric (SpringSource) tc Sever Evaluation Support | No |
Clearances
All U.S. Federal Technical Support Engineers (TSEs) have Secret Clearance. If you require speaking to someone with higher level clearances, please inform us. VMware cannot guarantee we have someone on staff beyond Secret Clearance.
Recently Acquired Products
Software products recently acquired by VMware through mergers and acquisitions may eventually be supported under the U.S. Federal Technical support offering. To learn which products are currently not eligible / excluded, please review the VMware Virtualization for Government page.
Web Support Requests
We cannot guarantee support requests filed via the web will be assigned to a U.S. Citizen on U.S. Soil. Please do not file support requests via the web; instead, request support by telephone using the exclusive U.S. Federal Technical Support telephone number.
Classified Data
VMware is not authorized to store classified / sensitive data. We offer a tool for you to scrub your log files before sending them to us. Please contact the U.S. Federal Technical Support team for the latest version of the tool.
