DATA SHEET

VMware vSphere
Foundation
The enterprise workload engine
for data center optimization

VMware vSphere Foundation Modern organizations need to solve for ever-growing environmental complexity.
at a glance Infrastructure sprawl, exponential data growth, and operational inconsistency
Components of vSphere Foundation increase costs and stifle innovation. Your modern organization needs a modern
solution that transforms current infrastructure and optimizes the overall
Enterprise workload engine to optimize
data center.
the IT infrastructure for organizations
of all sizes. VMware vSphere® Foundation is a new offering designed with intelligent
operations for optimizing your IT infrastructure, and is the enterprise workload
• VMware vSphere® Enterprise Plus
engine that enhances operational efficiency, supercharges workload
• VMware vCenter® Standard performance, elevates security, and accelerates innovation for organizations
• vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) of all sizes. It delivers predictive and proactive operations management,
purpose-built to enable the best performance, availability and efficiency from
• VMware Cloud Foundation™ Operations your infrastructure and applications. With an enterprise-ready IaaS control plane
• Plus, available add-ons to provision VMs, K8s, and infrastructure services, VMware vSphere Foundation
enables advanced troubleshooting, and delivers intelligent operations
Boost operational efficiency management, purpose-built to enable the best performance, availability,
• Maximize private cloud capacity and efficiency from your infrastructure, while providing unified, holistic
utilization. visibility and analytics in one place.
• Meet SLAs with performance Today, more than 300,000 enterprises rely on vSphere to empower
monitoring, predictive analytics, transformation. With vSphere Foundation, IT teams can:
and faster troubleshooting.

• Manage tight IT budgets by increasing

ROI from existing resources.
Boost Supercharge
Accelerate innovation
Operational Workload
• Modernize existing workloads Efficiency Performance
Intelligent operations Meet the throughput
to meet new customer needs. management and and latency needs
analytics to get the most of modern workloads
• Build and run modern apps using out of your infrastructure
containers and VMs on a unified
platform for simplified management. The enterprise workload
Accelerate Elevate
Innovation engine to optimize your Security
• Provide self-service access to IT infrastructure
Easily discover, access Deliver secure-by-default
infrastructure resources to DevOps and and deploy DevOps infrastructure to safeguard
services to run workloads data and ensure business
dev teams for faster time-to-market. with VMs and containers continuity

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VMware vSphere Foundation Key features and capabilities

at a glance
Simplified operations
Supercharge workload performance • Intelligent operations management and log analytics – Delivers infrastructure
• Run AI/ML workloads, leveraging performance, availability, and efficiency with comprehensive visibility and
GPUs, to drive business innovation. analytics all in one place.

• Improve infrastructure health and • Enhanced memory monitoring and remediation – Achieve better workload
maximize visibility to keep workloads placement by factoring in memory statistics on bandwidth, latency, and
performing optimally. miss rates.

• Meet performance needs of modern • Lifecycle management – Manage infrastructure images to patch, update,
workloads with optimal workload or upgrade clusters using a desired state model.
placement and balancing. • Green metrics – Understand power consumed by workloads, infrastructure
services, and idling time, at the host level. Discover ways to optimize
Elevate security power usage.
• Leverage modern identity federation
• Better console experience for easier management of all vSphere Foundation
and secure multi-factor authentication.
components.
• Enable governance and compliance
• Intelligent alerts – Intelligent clustering of alerts across a timeline for faster
to industry standards.
troubleshooting.
• Provide data-at-rest encryption • VMware ESXi™ live patching – ESXi components, VMware tools, and security
for workloads. patches can be applied without reboot or VM evacuation for reduced downtime.
• Provide a secure-by-default platform
Built-in security
for all workload types.
• Identity federation with Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID
(formerly Azure AD), ADFS, PingFederate and Okta – Secure access and
account management.
• Virtual machine encryption – Data-at-rest encryption for virtual machine
data and disks.
• vSphere trust authority – Remote attestation for sensitive workloads.
• TPM 2.0 support and virtual TPM – Supports TPM 2.0 hardware modules and
adds virtual TPM devices to shield guest OS from operator or in-guest attacks.
• vCenter configuration drifts – Detect vCenter configuration drift easily against
several vCenter profile templates.*
• Single sign-on – Single sign-on with vCenter-hosted VMware identity broker.
IT admins can sign on to any one component, and do not need to sign on again
to any other VVF component.*
• Centralized license and entitlement management – Better understanding
of license usage with centralized license and entitlement management.*
• Enhanced certificate management – IT admins can automate updating and/or
continuously monitor status and health of certificates to ensure validity.*

*Feature enabled via VCF Operations

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Learn more High performance

Want to learn more about how • Power larger AI workloads – Improve the upper performance limit for larger
VMware vSphere Foundation combines workloads with support for up to 16 GPUs to a single VM and maximum
the enterprise workload engine with of 32 GPU devices in pass-through mode.
powerful analytics to help you get • Distributed Resource Scheduler™ (DRS) – Automatic load balancing of
the most out of your infrastructure? resources allocated to workloads in a vSphere cluster. Storage DRS optimizes
VM data placement as it is created and used over time.
Visit www.vsphere-foundation.com
today! • GPU workload flexibility – Share GPU resources more effectively among
different workloads with heterogeneous vGPU profiles.

Business continuity
• High availability – Automatically restarts your VMs following physical machine failure.
• Fault tolerance – Provides continuous availability of any application in the
event of a hardware failure with no data loss or downtime.
• vMotion – Enables live migration of virtual machines with no disruption to users
or loss of service, eliminating the need to schedule application downtime for
planned server maintenance. Storage vMotion avoids downtime for planned
storage maintenance.
• VMware vSphere Replication™ – Efficient, array-agnostic replication of
VM data over the LAN or WAN, and enables replication at the VM level.

Application Development
• Independent VKS – vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) allows consumers such
as DevOps and Platform Engineering teams to manage consistent, compliant
and conformant Kubernetes clusters. This service is now an independent
service and allows consumers to easily upgrade to the latest Kubernetes
releases independent of vSphere releases.
• Local Consumption Interface (LCI) – Simplified self-service access to
infrastructure using LCI in the vSphere IaaS control plane.
• Supervisor on VMware vSAN™ stretched clusters – Deploy Supervisor
on vSAN stretched clusters spanning two physical locations or sites.
• Autoscaling for Kubernetes clusters – Easily scale down or scale up your
Kubernetes clusters/nodes with autoscaling.

Upgrade VMware vSphere Foundation

with Flexible Add-Ons
• VMware vSAN – Enterprise class HCI without compromise – High performance
and scalability with robust security and lower cost.
• VMware Live Recovery™ – Proven solution for ransomware and disaster
recovery with 75 percent faster resolution to downtime.
• VMware Avi™ Load Balancer – API-first and self-service driven software-
defined platform that provides load balancing, application security and
application analytics.

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