VMware Academic Program

Virtualizing Global Education & Research

The VMware Academic Program accelerates instruction and research in the rapidly expanding area of virtualized infrastructure by providing faculty and students with access to the virtualization technologies most widely used in commercial production environments.

• Faculty can use VMware software under specific program usage guidelines, free of charge, in a wide variety of areas of academic research and classroom instruction.
• Students can use this software free of charge for one year as part of qualified coursework or research projects.

To further enable academic research and instruction, the VMware Academic Program supports academic research and instruction by:

• Powering GoVirtual.org, which provides virtualization courseware materials, academic papers, downloads, and discussion boards – all at no cost to registered users.
• Developing multi-level CS courseware modules pertaining to virtualization.
• Grants program members access to source code for ESX and Workstation products to qualifying research projects. 
• Providing academic institutions and affiliated organizations special discounts on VMware software and support when deployed as a part of their IT infrastructure.
• Annually contributing to a wide variety of academic conferences, events, research projects, and consortia within the CS community.