SOLUTION OVERVIEW

Optimize Your IT
Infrastructure with VMware
vSphere Foundation
Harness the power of the industry-leading
enterprise workload engine
vSphere Foundation benefits Workloads, workloads everywhere. With the proliferation of workloads across
 7% gain in
7 all locations, including public cloud, private cloud and the edge, today’s
operational organizations are seeing their IT environments become more fractured and
efficiency siloed than ever. This increasing complexity hinders enterprises in a variety
of ways. Innovation gets stifled. Productivity goes down. Costs go up. Security
20% reduction in
  becomes more challenging. Solving the complexity conundrum is critical for
issue resolution time your organization to thrive. But how?
5x reduction in
  You need a truly modern solution that delivers four essential elements:
relative downtime

100% reduction
 
in last-minute
hardware costs

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Intelligent A high- A developer- Security and
organization based on interviewed
customers. The Total Economic Impact™ operations performing friendly compliance
Of VMware Cloud Foundation Operations, management infrastructure platform features
a commissioned study conducted by that helps that features that enables that help protect
Forrester Consulting on behalf of
VMware, published April 2024. optimize the use simplified DevOps services data and meet
of existing hardware lifecycle and Kubernetes regulatory
resources management clusters standards

In short, you need VMware vSphere® Foundation.

Transform your organization with vSphere Foundation

VMware vSphere Foundation is the enterprise workload engine built to
optimize the IT infrastructure for organizations of all sizes by boosting
operational efficiency, supercharging workload performance, elevating security,
and accelerating innovation. It 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 place.

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Optimize Your IT Infrastructure with VMware vSphere Foundation

Global leaders choose Boost operational efficiency

VMware by Broadcom With intelligent operations management and advanced analytics, vSphere
All around the world, today’s Foundation can help you maximize capacity utilization and free your IT staff
most innovative organizations to focus on more strategic business initiatives.
rely on VMware to help them
• Optimize operations with full-stack infrastructure visibility across compute,
navigate change. storage and network.
300K organizations
  • Enhance efficiencies with AI-driven troubleshooting and remediation.
use VMware globally
• Maximize resource utilization with tools to assess capacity and automate
85M workloads run
  cost savings.
on VMware daily
• Reduce IT maintenance windows by enabling host configuration at a cluster level.
5M developers build
 
on VMware today
Supercharge workload performance
VMware vSphere Foundation delivers the power your organization needs to
easily meet the throughput and latency requirements of modern workloads.
• Accelerate performance of key workloads.
• Harness up to 16 physical or virtual GPUs per VM.
• Boost the ROI of your AI infrastructure with GPU-aware workload placement
and load balancing.
• Continually optimize performance through data analysis and intent-based
workload placement.

Boost Supercharge
Operational Workload
Efficiency Performance
Maximize resources Meet the throughput
with intelligent and latency needs
operations and VMware of modern workloads
analytics
vSphere Foundation
The enterprise workload
engine to optimize your
Accelerate IT infrastructure Elevate
Innovation Security
Easily run workloads Safeguard data with
with VMs and a secure-by-default
containers infrastructure

Figure 1: How vSphere Foundation helps optimize your IT infrastructure.

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“Virtualization has allowed us to Accelerate innovation for DevOps

expose core services across our VMware vSphere Foundation provides the fastest way to get started with
apps in a scalable manner ... and Kubernetes, enabling you to easily deploy DevOps services to run workloads
completely redefine the user with VMs and containers and accelerate business innovation.

experience.” • Modernize existing workloads to meet customer needs.

Harmeen Mehta • Build and run new modern apps on a unified system for simplified management.
Global CIO, Airtel
• Accelerate time-to-market by providing self-service access to DevOps and
Platform Engineering teams.

vSphere
Applications

DB and AI/ML/HPC DEVELOPER

Analytics
vSphere Business
Applications Critical
Time
Critical
Applications
vSphere Supervisor Services DEVELOPER
DB and AI/ML/HPC Business Time DEVOPS AND
Analytics Applications Critical Critical
PLATFORM
vSphere
VM Service ENGINEERING
Kubernetes Service
vSphere Supervisor Services
DEVOPS AND
PLATFORM
vSphere Core Infrastructure
VM Service ENGINEERING
Kubernetes Service
#1 in server virtualization
IT ADMIN
vSphere was ranked #1 in the Compute Networking Storage
G2 Enterprise Grid® Report for Core Infrastructure
Server Virtualization, Spring 2024.
Figure 2: vSphere
Compute Foundation with DevOps Services provides
Networking the fastest way for IT
Storage
ADMIN
your
organization to get started with Kubernetes.

Elevate security
VMware vSphere Foundation delivers a secure-by-default infrastructure for all
workload types to safeguard data and ensure business continuity for your organization.
• Employ features that adhere to the three tenets of information security—protecting
data confidentiality, maintaining data integrity, and ensuring data availability.
Leader in container
orchestration • Leverage modern identity federation and secure multi-factor authentication.
vSphere was ranked #3 in • Enable governance and compliance to industry standards.
the G2 Enterprise Grid® Report
• Provide data-at-rest encryption for workloads.
for Container Orchestration,
Spring 2024.

CONFIDENTIALITY INTEGRITY AVAILABILITY

Protecting systems and Preventing modification Ensuring that data is
data from unauthorized of data by unauthorized available to authorized
CONFIDENTIALITY
people and groups INTEGRITY
groups and systems AVAILABILITY
people when needed
Protecting systems and Preventing modification Ensuring that data is
data from unauthorized of data by unauthorized available to authorized
people and groups groups and systems people when needed

Figure 3: The core tenets of information security.

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Next steps Accelerate your business transformation with powerful add-ons

1. Validate your business objectives Once you deploy vSphere Foundation, you can take advantage of additional
and priorities. game-changing solutions to address specific business needs.

2. Consider add-on offerings to • VMware vSAN™ – Enterprise-class hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)

address specific objectives. delivering high performance and scalability with robust security and
lower cost.
3. Model the potential impact,
savings and outcomes. • VMware Live Recovery – Proven solution for ransomware and disaster
recovery with 75 percent faster resolution to downtime.
Get started today at vsphere.com
• VMware AVI Load Balancer – API-first and self-service driven
platform providing load balancing, app security and analytics.

Speed your journey to IT infrastructure optimization

To learn more about how vSphere Foundation can help your organization boost
operational efficiencies, supercharge workload performance, elevate security,
and accelerate innovation, visit vsphere.com.

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