VMware technologies offer internal benefits for ISVs, as well, providing a flexible and cost-lowering platform for developing, testing, selling, and delivering their applications. Support costs also may be reduced and the customer support experience improved by using VMware capabilities such as virtual appliance technology for application deployment and virtual machine copies to allow technical support personal to reproduce software issues easily, without needing access to many different kinds of physical computer systems.

Requirements

• Currently be enrolled in the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program at any level.
• Submit explicit support statement for the application.
• TSANet membership and an entry in the VMware custom TSANet portal.
• Demonstrate successful operation by passing a workload test against a virtual configuration of the application and submitting the results to VMware. Partners that are highly experienced with delivering their products on a virtual platform may provide either of the following to VMware and request a waiver for the workload test:
  
  - Upload comprehensive user deployment guide or similar document that describes how to install and operate the application on a virtual machine for production use
  
  - Provide names of three reference customers currently using the application in production in a VMware vSphere infrastructure
• Publish product on the VMware Solution Exchange.

Get Started

To get started and express interest in enrolling in the VMware Ready Program, please fill-in the online Partner Onboarding Form. Select "Application Software" in the Program Name field.