VMware Solutions components

End of Marketing: As of 31 October 2025, new deployments of VMware Solutions offerings are no longer available for new customers. Existing customers can still use and expand their active VMware® workloads on IBM Cloud®. For more information, see End of Marketing for VMware on IBM Cloud.

IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions provides automation to deploy VMware® technology components into IBM Cloud® data centers across the globe.

The offerings in this solution include VMware Cloud Foundation™ products within an automatically deployed and configured cluster: VMware vSphere ESXi™, VMware vCenter Server® Appliance, VMware NSX-T™, and optionally, VMware vSAN™.

The architecture consists of a single cloud region. You can extend into more cloud regions that are located in another geography and in another IBM Cloud pod within the same data center. A region is defined as a unique VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instance. This design also allows for automated expansion and contraction of virtual capacity within a VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instance.