Qualifying Access and Elite members can purchase at a deep discount, a limited number of additional licenses of certain VMware products to develop, test, validate or integrate their products on VMware platforms. Details provided below.

* Purchase of Basic SnS at list price required for each license.
All software licenses delivered under the VMware TAP program are considered not for resale (NFR) and are intended for partners to use in a lab or testing and development environment or any other pre-sales situation only, and not for any production environment. Acceptable uses of software licenses include testing and supporting applications for the VMware platform, product demos for potential customers in a demo or training facility, answering support questions for product(s) running VMware software.

Unacceptable use of software licenses include running any other applications on the VMware platform other than the application a partner is trying to integrate or support, running VMware software in any production environment: data center, accounting department, sales department, etc. After all of the appropriate documents have been signed and the fees have been paid, an order is generated to deliver the software (electronic license only) to the appropriate contacts provided at the time of enrollment.

The licenses are provided to new TAP Program members after all of the appropriate documents have been accepted and the fees have been paid. Updates and upgrades as well as renewal of support are provided as needed. All communication related to licenses is sent to the appropriate contacts provided at the time of enrollment. See Partner Central for latest pricing and order fulfillment details.