VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0: The Platform of Choice for Traditional Applications

For over two decades, IT leaders have consistently turned to VMware solutions to architect their ever-expanding IT ecosystems, with operational excellence as the paramount goal. VMware technologies have continually redefined what it means to operate a private cloud, from pioneering OS virtualization to developing advanced automation capabilities. 

A core strength has always been robust support for running traditional, mission-critical applications such as Microsoft SQL and Oracle. With VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, providing a consistent, predictable, and highly performant platform for these foundational applications has been a central focus of its development. 

Streamlined deployment with VCF Automation

Deploying traditional applications with VCF 9.0 is not only straightforward but remarkably more efficient than ever before. VCF Automation introduces a powerful capability for creating and leveraging templates. These templates enable the deployment of security-hardened images for both development and production environments at true cloud scale. This templated approach drastically reduces the time and effort traditionally associated with provisioning, helping ensure that applications are deployed consistently, securely, and in alignment with established best practices across the entire private cloud infrastructure. VCF Automation empowers IT teams to rapidly provision new instances of their critical applications, accelerating development cycles and ensuring business continuity.

Proactive management and optimization with VCF Operations

VCF Operations transforms application monitoring and management from a reactive troubleshooting exercise into a proactive optimization strategy. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools for deep visibility into your traditional applications. With predefined application dashboards, the most relevant and actionable key performance indicators (KPIs) are curated and displayed to database administrators (DBAs) and application owners. Furthermore, these dashboards are highly customizable, allowing DBAs to modify them to suit their specific requirements. This empowers them to meticulously trend utilization, performance metrics, and capacity consumption. 

The era of guesswork is over; when an application owner requests more memory or disk capacity, the rich, detailed metrics within VCF Operations deliver a comprehensive yet easily understandable visualization of your application’s end-to-end health and resource demands affirming their need. This data-driven approach enables informed decisions, preventing resource bottlenecks, minimizing cost overruns, and ensuring optimal application performance.

Unwavering reliability and best practices

Some fundamental truths remain constant, and one of them is the continued reliance on VCF 9.0 for running your traditional applications. The legacy of VMware technology’s excellence is embedded in well-documented best practices and recommendations specifically tailored for applications like MS-SQL, Oracle, and many others. These comprehensive guides are designed to steer your team towards success in delivering these crucial applications to their business owners. 

With over 20 years of unparalleled experience in operating mission-critical applications for enterprises worldwide, VCF 9.0 meticulously distills and harnesses that extensive knowledge, transforming it into the ultimate private cloud platform for even the most demanding workloads. This enables not only operational efficiency but also the highest levels of reliability and performance.

Resilient protection against modern threats

In today’s volatile digital landscape, planned protection from both natural disasters and sophisticated ransomware attacks is no longer optional but a mandatory imperative. VCF 9.0 integrates seamlessly with robust disaster recovery and business continuity solutions: VCF Site Recovery Manager and VMware Live Recovery. 

Site Recovery Manager provides the capability to methodically plan and rigorously test an entire site outage in the event of a catastrophic disaster. This proactive planning ensures that recovery objectives can be met with confidence. 

Similarly, VMware Live Recovery goes beyond mere data protection; it allows for the comprehensive testing of the entire database recovery process. This end-to-end testing capability ensures operational success, guaranteeing that critical databases can be restored quickly and efficiently, minimizing downtime and safeguarding business operations against unforeseen disruptions.

In the evolving landscape of enterprise IT, traditional applications, while robust and foundational, face increasing demands for agility, security, and performance. To meet these challenges head-on, these applications require the transformative power of VCF 9.0. Upgrade today!