We’re excited to announce that with the release of the new vSphere 8.0U3e patch, all existing VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) customers can now take advantage of expanded vSAN capacity entitlements—without the need for trials or additional licensing.
What’s New in This Release
Starting in November 2024, VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) began including 0.25 TiB of vSAN capacity per core with all new VVF licenses. With the release of vSphere 8.0U3e, we’re extending this benefit to existing customers too, offering them the same vSAN capacity entitlement of 0.25 TiB per core. This new entitlement includes additional benefits that enhance the value of vSAN with VVF. Here’s how:
The vSAN capacity is aggregated across your environment, so you can allocate unused entitlements from compute-only clusters to vSAN-enabled clusters, optimizing resource use across your infrastructure.
New Benefits for Existing Customers
- No More Trial Limits: The included 0.25 TiB per core is now fully entitled, not trial-based.
- Aggregated Capacity: Pool storage across clusters—use it where you need it most.
- Simplified Scaling: Need more storage than the entitlement? Purchase only the add-on capacity beyond what’s included.
Why This Matters
With this update, VMware vSphere Foundation becomes an even more compelling choice for organizations looking to modernize and consolidate their infrastructure. By seamlessly supporting both virtual machines (VMs) and containers, vSAN adds enterprise-class hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities to your infrastructure. The integration of compute, storage, and management into a single stack streamlines operations, reduces complexity, and provides a unified solution with built-in security and scalability.
This added vSAN capacity to VMware vSphere Foundation brings substantial value—whether you’re optimizing a private cloud, enabling developer agility, or simplifying IT operations. It gives you more control and flexibility over your infrastructure while lowering total cost of ownership and minimizing operational overhead.
“VMware vSAN offers significant storage-related cost savings for organizations by increasing their virtualization levels, which reduces physical storage hardware and resource requirements. Enhanced virtualization helps organizations allocate storage resources more efficiently to meet demand without over-provisioning.”*
VMware vSAN has simplified our IT storage team’s response to change requests, new systems, and challenges. Previously, hardware procurement and setup took a long time, but now it’s done in days. This increases our efficiency by 35%–40%” *
Next Step
Already a VMware vSphere Foundation customer? Simply install the vSphere 8.0U3e patch to unlock your vSAN entitlement. Download the patch here.
New to vSphere Foundation? This is the perfect time to explore how this workload platform delivers value out of the box.
*Source: IDC Business Value White Paper, sponsored by VMware by Broadcom. The Business Value of VMware vSAN Storage for Hyperconverged Infrastructure. November 2024. IDC#US52705024
