VMware vSphere Foundation Renewals

Boost Data Center Operational Efficiency with an Enterprise Workload Platform

Why Your Company Should Adopt VMware vSphere Foundation

Globally, software vendors have moved toward subscription-based pricing models, replacing perpetual licensing. As VMware by Broadcom transitions to this industry standard, we can offer customers fresh benefits not possible under previous licensing models.

VMware remains the same trusted and capable company that has supported its customers for over 20 years, delivering the world’s #1 product for Server Virtualization.

VMware vSphere Foundation: Enterprise Workload Platform

VMware vSphere Foundation is our new, streamlined solution for small to mid-sized enterprises. VVF delivers intelligent operations management, purpose-built to enable the best performance, availability, and efficiency from your infrastructure while providing comprehensive visibility and analytics in one offering. Other add-ons are also available to address specific use cases, including Storage, Ransomware Recovery, and Disaster Recovery.

Key use cases for vSphere Foundation include:

Optimize Your Data Center
Get the power of the enterprise workload platform with integrated management and analytics

Boost Operational Efficiency
Intelligent operations management and analytics to get the most out of your infrastructure

Accelerate Innovation for DevOps
Easily discover, access, and deploy DevOps services to run workloads with VMs and containers

Supercharge Workload Performance
Meet the throughput and latency needs of modern distributed workloads

VMware vSphere Foundation includes:

vSphere

vSphere Cloud Foundation (formerly Aria)

Tanzu

vSAN

Available Add-Ons include:

VMware vSAN

VMware Live Recovery

When VMware customers move to VVF, they move to a subscription:

Subscription to VVF replaces the previous model of perpetual licenses.

Each subscription now includes support from VMware for the duration of the subscription itself: no longer licensed as a separate product.

Existing clients who have already paid for support for their perpetual license will continue to be served by VMware support until the expiration of their current service contract term.

The VMware vSphere Foundation Difference

300K Organizations Globally
85M Enterprise Workloads on VMware
5M Developers Building on VMware Today
Global Ecosystem of 18K Partners Supporting:
- 10 of Top 10 Largest Global Banks
- 9 of Top 10 World’s Best Hospitals
- 100% of U.S. Federal Agencies
- 19 of Top 20 Global Retailers

“I love how [with vSphere] I can just login to one link and have my VMs in front of my sight. I can monitor, login, and see what is going on with my VMs’ Health.”

The #1 virtualization solution and core of the SDDC, vSphere changed IT and the new features adding to the stack are game changing.

“Virtual management is a breeze... Powerful, easy to use, and familiar interface.”

“[A] subscription approach enables us, as a vendor, to deliver innovation faster and more effectively to customers than the old perpetual approach.”
E. China Sr. Director, Cloud Infrastructure Product Marketing