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VMware Cloud Foundation
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VMware Cloud Foundation

Manufacturer:VMware
SKU:1651
VMware Cloud Foundation™ is the industry's most advanced hybrid cloud platform. It provides a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking, security and cloud management to run enterprise apps—traditional or containerized —in private or public environments.
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VMware Cloud Foundation™ (VCF) is the flagship enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution for customers to run their business-critical and modern applications – in a secure, resilient, and cost-efficient manner.

  • VCF is a full-stack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution that delivers software-defined compute, storage, networking, security, and management.
  • Integrated self-service infrastructure platform to deploy VMs/containers for developer agility.
  • Hardened platform offering built-in resilience, scaling, and clustering for non-stop operations.
  • Provides cloud agility to scale infrastructure without scaling staff, delivering cloud consumption on-premises.
  • Provides automation and orchestration to simplify Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 tasks.
  • Available as a single package to simplify full stack deployment.

 

VMware Cloud Foundation

Comparing VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

FeaturesvSphere FoundationVMware Cloud Foundation
Compute●●
Distributed Resource Scheduler, Distributed Switch●●
Cross-VC vMotion, Long Distance vMotion, Direct Path vMotion, Storage vMotion●●
High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Data Protection, Trust Authority●●
Kubernetes Runtime, Automated Multicluster Operations●●
vCenter: Backup and Restore, Linked Mode, HA●●
Storage  
Data-at-rest and Data-In-Transit Encryption100 GiB / Core1TiB / Core
Stretched Cluster with Local Failure Protection100 GiB / Core1TiB / Core
Petabyte Scale, Disaggregated Storage for vSphere100 GiB / Core1TiB / Core
Dedup & Compression100 GiB / Core1TiB / Core
Networking  
Networking: Distributed Switching and Routing ●
Large Scale Workload Migration ●
Network Ops: Flow Analysis, App Discovery, M-Seg Planning, Network Assurance and Verification ●
Management  
Operations: Performance Optimization, Capacity Management, Compliance, Monitoring and Troubleshooting, Log Analytics●●
Automation: Automated Lifecycle Management, App/Infra Provisioning, Governance ●
VMware and Third-Party Database, Middleware and Application management packs ●
Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Applications with Open- Source Telegraf ●
Out-of-the-box Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Curated Applications with Telegraf agent ●
Native Public Cloud Monitoring ●
TVS management packs ●
SDDC Manager: Workload Domain Management, Lifecycle Management, Certificate Management● Excludes DB & apps●
Support  
Production Support – Regional Coverage, 24x7 Support ●
Select Support – Global Coverage, 24x7 Support, Faster SLAs, SDK/API Guidance ●
Includes Activation and Upgrade Support (Requires full SDDC Stack Deployment) ●

 

Licensing:

  • Subscription
  • Disconnected, optional connectivity in future
  • Per core pricing – 16 cores per CPU minimum
  • Support 1-, 3- and 5-year – Terms (moving to Broadcom system May 2024. Broadcom system supports annual billing and co-term)
  • Termination for Convenience (TFC)
  • vSAN: 1 TiB per core
  • Select Support: superior global support with better SLA, senior VMware engineers, and Root Cause Analysis
  • It is strongly recommended to attach the Support Account Manager Add-On to accompany Select Support
  • Full VMware Cloud Foundation stack (including SDDC Manager) must be deployed to be entitled to SRE

 

Products & Support Services includes:

 

Available Add-Ons for purchase for VCF:

  • VMware Live Recovery (VLR)
    • Sold as Per Protected VM
    • VMware Live Site Recovery (LSR)
    • VMware Live Cyber Recovery (LCR)
      • Sold as protected TiB
  • vSAN Enterprise
    • Sold as Per TiB (no minimum purchase)
  • VMware Load Balancer (NSX Advanced Load Balancer)
    • Sold as per service unit (Service Engine x vCPU)
  • VMware Firewall
    • Sold as per CPU Core
    • Distributed Firewall
    • Gateway Firewall
    • Security Intelligence
    • Container Security with Antrea
  • VMware Firewall + Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
    • Sold as per CPU Core
    • Distributed Firewall
    • Gateway Firewall
    • Security Intelligence
    • Container Security with Antrea
    • Distributed and Gateway Intrusion Detection and Prevention Service (IDS/IPS)
    • Malware Prevention
    • Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) and Network Detection and Response (NDR)
  • Tanzu Mission Control (TMC)
    • Sold as per CPU Core
    • TMC SaaS
    • TMC (Self-Managed)
  • Tanzu Application Platform (TAP)
    • TAP
      • Sold as per vCPU
    • Tanzu Spring Runtime
      • Sold as per CPU Core
  • Tanzu Spring Runtime (TSR)
    • Sold as per CPU Core
  • Tanzu Guardrails Enterprise (TGE)
    • Sold as per resource
    • Tanzu Hub
    • Tanzu Guardrails
    • Aria Automation Config (formally Saltstack)
    • Automation for Secure Clouds
    • Automation for Secure Host
  • Tanzu Guardrails Advanced (TGA)
    • Sold as per resource
    • Tanzu Hub
    • Tanzu Guardrails
    • Automation for Secure Clouds
  • Tanzu Cloudhealth Enterprise (TCE)
    • Sold as percentage of monthly cloud spend
  • Tanzu Application Catalog (TAC)
    • Sold as active artifact
  • Tanzu Ops for Apps (formally Wavefront)
    • Sold as point per second (PPS)
  • Tanzu Insights (TI)
    • Sold as event per month
  • VMware Private AI Foundation (COMING SOON)
  • Support Services
  • VMware Learning Education Services

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