The VMware Ready Storage Virtual Appliance Program is an extension of the VMware Ready Virtual Appliance Program for storage virtual appliances. The purpose of the program is twofold:
- For customers, to offer a selection of storage virtual appliances that went through rigorous VMware certification testing to ensure compatibility with vSphere.
- For partners, to offer a way to differentiate their products via throughout validation and listing on the VMware Storage Compatibility Guide.
How Customers Are Benefitting
Reduced costs for the SMB and ROBO
With VMware Ready Storage Virtual Appliance provides customers the peace of mind to choose a Storage Virtual Appliance that successfully passed VMware validation criteria and is listed on the storage compatibility list
(and so it is directly supported by VMware).
Qualifying Storage Virtual Appliances
The VMware Ready Storage Virtual Appliance program is designed for virtual appliances that export local disks to other VMs or physical servers and that passed VMware Storage Certification and met the criteria to be listed on the VMware Solution Exchange.
The VMware Ready Storage Virtual Appliance program is available to all VMware Technology Alliance Partners at the Elite level.
