VMware Workbench is a next generation development kit and certification virtual appliance that provides a fully integrated development, testing, and troubleshooting environment for vSphere plugins and applications. It is based on the open source Eclipse IDE and supports the full product lifecycle from requirements gathering to packaging and support. The first version includes development kit plugins for device drivers, CIM providers, storage modules, and network filters as well as certification plugins for storage, servers, fault tolerance, device drivers, and network filters.