VMware vSphere Foundation is a new offering, designed to optimise your data centre, and is the enterprise workload platform that enhances operational efficiency, supercharges workload performance, and accelerates innovation for organisations 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.

Component of VMware vSphere Foundation:

  • vSphere Enterprise Plus (*Tanzu Kubernetes Grid)
  • vCenter Standard
  • vSAN*
  • Aria Suite Standard
  • Plus, Available Add-ons

      1.vSphere Enterprise Plus

  • Includes: Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKGs), vCenter
  • Description: The most comprehensive edition of vSphere, offering advanced features like vMotion, DRS, and HA. It’s ideal for large-scale deployments and mission-critical workloads.
  1. vCenter Standard
  • Description: A more basic edition of vCenter Server, suitable for smaller environments. It provides centralized management for vSphere clusters, hosts, and virtual machines.
  1. vSAN Enterprise per TiB*
  • Description: A software-defined storage solution that provides scalable, high-performance storage for virtualized environments. The “per TiB” licensing model means you pay based on the amount of storage used.
  1. Aria Suite Standard
  • Description: A more basic edition of Aria Suite, offering essential features for automating IT operations and managing cloud resources.

(Subscription term of 1, 3 or 5 years
Per core pricing
16 cores per CPU minimum
vSAN: 1 TiB per core
Broadcom Maintenance Support)

Add-on services-
Storage disaster and Ransomware Recovery, Application Networking and Security Application Platform Services, Private AI