Key features overview
VCF 9.0 significantly reduces the complexity and risk of hybrid cloud operations through full-stack automated management.
Unified VPC operating model
Revolutionize the way you consume online. It supports tenant-level IP address space overlap, self-service routing and complete isolation of security policies, and provides subnet and gateway self-service consistent with public clouds.
Full stack life cycle (LCM)
SDDC Manager automates full-stack upgrades. Supports Live Patching technology, allowing critical kernel patches to be applied without restarting ESXi hosts, ensuring continued business availability.
Unified management of multiple sites
A unified view of VCF deployments across geographies through the Federated Console. Support global security policy distribution and resource quota management, eliminating management islands.
Project Windlass Security
Built-in distributed firewall (DFW) and network detection (NDR). Natively supports malware protection and ransomware scanning, enabling lateral movement defense at the infrastructure layer.
Private AI Foundation
Provides out-of-the-box GenAI infrastructure support. Deep integration with the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stack enables dynamic allocation of GPU resources and multi-tenant isolation.
Smart cost monitoring
Integrate Aria Operations to achieve billing analysis accurate to the VM level. Supports consumption-based capacity prediction and idle resource recovery recommendations to optimize private cloud TCO.
Core component evolution
Based on VCF 9.0 software-defined data center (SDDC) standard architecture
New subscription model matrix
Simplified product portfolio aligned with Broadcom strategy
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
Suitable for business-critical private clouds and hybrid clouds
- ✔ vSphere Enterprise Plus & vCenter Server
- ✔ vSAN Enterprise (includes 1TiB per Core license)
- ✔ NSX Enterprise Plus (full-featured SDN and security)
- ✔ Aria Suite full stack management (Operations, Logs, Automation)
- ✔ SDDC Manager Full Stack Automation LCM
- ✔ Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) deep integration
- • Provides NSX network and micro-segmentation security capabilities to support private cloud multi-tenant network models.
- • Provide SDDC Manager, covering workload domain orchestration and full-stack lifecycle management.
- • For complete private cloud platform operations, it is suitable for unified computing, storage, network and automated management.
VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF)
Suitable for enterprise-class virtualization consolidation
- ✔ vSphere Enterprise Plus & vCenter Server
- ✔ vSAN Enterprise (includes 250GiB per Core base quota)
- ✔ Aria Operations & Aria Operations for Logs
- ✔ Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)
- ✘ NSX (not included)
- ✘ SDDC Manager (not included)
- • Focuses on virtualization platform integration and does not include platform-level capabilities of NSX and SDDC Manager.
- • vSAN authorization is a basic quota of 250GiB per Core, which is suitable for medium-scale virtualization scenarios.
- • It is more suitable as a standardized base for enterprise virtualization, and network/security components can be added as needed later.
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