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.

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VMware Workbench
Talk for EclipseCon 2011
Alan Tan
Senior R&D Manager, VMware

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VMware Workbench
Overview
Development Kits
Certification Kits
Screenshots

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VMware Workbench Overview
Next generation dev kit and certification virtual appliance
Fully integrated dev kit and testing environments for vSphere
plugins and applications
• Supports full product lifecycle
Based on the Eclipse open source IDE (see: www.eclipse.org)
• Full GUI environment for development, testing, and troubleshooting
 Including debuggers and log browsers ease troubleshooting
• Highly extensible framework with hundreds of existing open source plugins
available
Advanced test suite framework with certification workflow
Advanced testbed setup and management
Dev kits and cert kits delivered as Eclipse plugins

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VMware Workbench 1.0
Development Kit plugins
• Driver Dev Kit (Beta) – develop device drivers
• CIM Provider Dev Kit (Beta) – develop CIM providers
• PSA Dev Kit (Beta) – develop storage modules (such as PowerPath)
• vNetwork API Dev Kit (Beta) – develop network filters
Certification/Test Kit plugins
• Storage Cert (Beta) – certify storage arrays
• Server Cert (Beta) – certify servers
• FT Cert (RC) – certify FT compatibility
• Device Drivers Cert (RC) – certify device drivers
• vNetwork API Cert (RC) – certify network filters
• CIM Providers Tests (RC) – test CIM providers (not a cert program)

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VMware Workbench Roadmap
Requirements
•Gather
•Analyze
•Prioritize
Design
•High level
architecture
•Decomposition
•Detailed design
Develop
•Edit
•Compile
•Debug
•Functional Test
•Document
Test & Cert
•System Test
•Regression
Test
•VMware Ready
Certification
Package &
Update
•Product
packaging
•Distribution
Support
•Troubleshooting
•Bug fixing
•Patching
•Updating
Product Lifecycle
VMware Workbench 1.0
VMware Workbench 2 Year Roadmap
Legend: Level of support from light ( ) to full featured ( )

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VMware Workbench – Dev/Test/Debug
Development
• Create device driver project using sample code, Linux driver, or empty
project
• Edit, build, and API code checker
• Source code repository
Test
• Identify testbed servers and resources
• Installation Helper to create VMs, install packages, install GOS
• Create test session and select test group
• Select and run test cases
Debug
• Create debug session and select debug target system from the
testbed
• Download and install driver on the target
• Launch debugger and attach to the target
• Set breakpoints, inspect, diagnose

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VMware Workbench – Test & Certification
Certification Session
• Create certification session
• Select certification type
Testbed Setup
• Identify and select testbed servers and resources
• Installation Helper to create VMs, install packages, install GOS
Running Tests
• Select and run test cases
• View test status and logs
Results and Submission
• Diagnose and interpret test failures
• Inspect logs
• Submit certification to VMware

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VMware Workbench
• Edit/Compile

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VMware Workbench
• Debug

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VMware Workbench
• Testbed Setup

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VMware Workbench
• Run Cert Tests

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VMware Workbench
Test Session Dashboard

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VMware Workbench
Testbed Analyzer

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VMware Workbench
 Log Analysis

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Demo

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Q & A
Alan Tan
atan@vmware.com