VMware vSphere Foundation is a new offering, designed to optimize your data center, and is the enterprise workload platform that enhances operational efficiency, supercharges workload performance, and accelerates innovation for organizations of all sizes. It delivers predictive and proactive operations management, purpose-built to enable the best performance, availability, and efficiency from your infrastructure and applications. It can improve performance and prevent disruption across the IT environment, with intelligent operations from apps to storage providing simplified availability and comprehensive visibility in one place.
vSphere is ranked #1 in G2 Enterprise Grid Report for Server Virtualization, Winter 2023
VMware vSphere Foundation offers:
20% reduction in hardware costs through optimization and capacity management1
50% reduction in mean time to resolution and quick remediation1
93% reduction in unplanned downtime through intelligent insights1
Integrated self-service platform for containers and virtual machines, with embedded Kubernetes
Customers looking to purchase vSphere Enterprise Plus or vCloud Suite Standard can enjoy potential cost savings of up to 50% with a 3-year subscription by adopting VMware vSphere Foundation. In addition, they will also be equipped to handle scaling, modern workloads, and efficiency challenges with best-in-class solutions included at no extra cost.
Why VMware vSphere Foundation? – The Changing Landscape
In the realm of information technology, we are witnessing a continuation of the growth trends that have already impacted large enterprises. These changes are set to influence businesses of all sizes and industries.
During 2024 and beyond, customers will be wanting to:
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Simplicity at scale, commonly referred to as ‘doing more with less.’ Businesses need to prioritize the outcomes that their IT infrastructure can provide, instead of investing precious time in addressing issues stemming from unreliable point solutions. VMware offers the most flexible and cost-effective private-cloud infrastructure that enables customers to build and customize as their requirements evolve.
Reduce Risk
With VMware Leverage a proven infrastructure solution and broad ecosystem that has been deployed by more customers than any other vendor. By seamlessly integrating with existing investments without any vendor lock-in, VMware solutions provide customers with peace of mind.
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Business continues to digitize, and amid rapid market changes, businesses need an IT capability that provides the flexibility to adapt and scale, for any type of workload. VMware enables customers to roll out applications faster with the freedom to leverage a unified platform for both traditional and modern workloads.
Adding to this dynamic landscape is the industry’s macro-trend, shifting from perpetual licensing to subscription models. Managing a diverse portfolio of many subscription solutions can be a complex task and business are looking to simplify procurement and vendor/license management.
The Opportunity with VMware vSphere Foundation
VMware has long been a trusted provider of infrastructure solutions for businesses worldwide, helping you to manage change and grow your business. VMware solutions, notably vSphere, have consistently been rated as best-in-class across various competencies and business have long viewed VMware solutions as the ones that ‘just work’.
At VMware, our primary focus has always been to provide solutions that align seamlessly with our customers’ challenges, both current and future. As previously discussed in Krish Prasad’s blog, the acquisition by Broadcom has accelerated our ability to simplify, enhance capabilities, and often reduce your costs.
VMware vSphere Foundation offers an ideal transition path for those currently using vSphere Enterprise Plus, or vCloud Suite Standard. At the same time, customers with lighter requirements such as basic hardware consolidation or virtualization on a very small number of servers are still able to use vSphere Standard or vSphere Essentials Plus Kit.
VMware vSphere Foundation is a new integrated offering from VMware. However, to help understand the makeup of the solution, the following overview refers to the legacy components that went in to making it:
vSphere Enterprise Plus
– vSphere ESXi – Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
vCenter Standard
Aria Suite Standard
– Aria Operations
– Aria Operations for Logs
– Aria Suite Lifecycle
vSAN Enterprise (100 GiB per CPU Core per host)
Production Support
On top of vSphere Foundation, you can deploy a variety of use-case based add-ons, as follows:
VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery
VMware Ransomware Recovery
VMware Site Recovery
vSAN Enterprise (Expansion)
VMware Load Balancer (NSX Advanced Load Balancer)
Tanzu Mission Control
Key Takeaways
To recap, vSphere Foundation is the solution that allows you to do more, for less. VMware vSphere Foundation is the best solution to continue with the industry leading infrastructure solution, while also providing a significant number of new capabilities that will help you address the challenges you will face over the next few years.
In my next blog post, I will explore each of the core value pillars for VMware vSphere Foundation:
Boost Operational Efficiency
Supercharge Workload Performance
Accelerate Innovation for DevOps
Elevate Security
Please visit vSphere.com to learn more, and reach out to a partner reseller to explore how vSphere Foundation and the available add-ons can help in your specific environment.
