VMware vSphere Foundation
VMware vSphere Foundation
Manufacturer:VMware
SKU:1652
vSphere Foundation™ is an enterprise workload platform to optimize the data center for organizations of all sizes
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VMware vSphere Foundation™ (VVF) - a simplified, enterprise-grade workload platform for our mid-sized to smaller customers.
- VVF solution integrates vSphere with our intelligent operations management to provide the best performance, availability, and efficiency with greater visibility and insights.
- vSphere Foundation can be upgraded to a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solution with an optional software-defined storage (vSAN) add-on.
Comparing VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
| Features | vSphere Foundation | VMware 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 Encryption | 100 GiB / Core | 1TiB / Core |
| Stretched Cluster with Local Failure Protection | 100 GiB / Core | 1TiB / Core |
| Petabyte Scale, Disaggregated Storage for vSphere | 100 GiB / Core | 1TiB / Core |
| Dedup & Compression | 100 GiB / Core | 1TiB / 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)
- Includes Production Support
Products & Support Services includes:
- vSphere Enterprise Plus
- vCenter Server Standard
- vSphere with Tanzu (includes TKG Runtime)
- vSphere ESXi
- vSAN Enterprise (*includes 100GiB per CPU Core per host as free trial)
- Aria Suite Standard
- Aria Suite Lifecycle
- Aria Operations
- Aria Operations for Logs
- Production Support Service
Available Add-Ons for purchase for VVF:
- 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
- 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
- TAP
- 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
- Support Services
- VMware Learning Education Services
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