VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
VMware Cloud Foundation is a multi-cloud platform with a hyper-converged infrastructure providing your organisation with tools to modernise your data centre.
VMware Cloud Foundation offers your organisation the best aspects of private cloud solutions; the scale and agility of public cloud with the performance and security of private. Discover what is offered within VCF and how your entire cloud operating model will be supported with innovative features.
Many organisations find that with growth comes complexity, especially regarding their IT infrastructure. The need to scale up whilst maintaining resilient security and managing integrations of different platforms and services consumes a large amount of resources, whether that be due to time or cost. The expansion of your organisation’s IT infrastructure can be a smooth operation when you use the right enterprise cloud platform.
VCF takes VMware’s industry leading datacentre solutions and combines them to build a private / hybrid cloud foundation, with a unified UI that has the functionality to simplify the management and deployment of VM’s, easily monitor and enforce security across the network with rapid recovery, making storage and compute predictable and scalable and enabling you to deploy modern container-based applications making them portable and allowing it to run consistently and uniformly across any platform or cloud. VCF offers a full stack hyperconverged solution that will modernise your data centre.
Key aspects of VMware Cloud Foundation
Discover the different components that are part of the VMware Cloud Foundation, each component carries a different function, which together, create a powerful solution to bring efficiency to your operations.
vSphere is an industry-leading hypervisor that changes the way your data centre operates. By consolidating your data centre into a unified environment, vSphere enhances IT efficiency and significantly reduces the likelihood of errors. It streamlines management processes and also optimises resource usage. Additionally, vSphere’s robust security features and advanced automation capabilities further contribute to its reputation as a top-tier solution for data centre management.
vSAN is a cutting-edge software-defined storage solution that transforms local devices into a cohesive, shared storage pool. This simplifies storage management by eliminating the need for traditional, complex storage arrays. By using the existing hardware within your data centre, vSAN optimises resource usage and reduces costs associated with purchasing and maintaining separate storage systems.
NSX is a comprehensive software platform for network management and security, using software-defined networking (SDN) principles. Unlike traditional networking solutions that depend on physical hardware, NSX abstracts network functions, allowing them to be created and controlled through software. It virtualises components like switches, routers, and firewalls, NSX provides a unified framework for efficient network operations and robust security., empowering organizations to build agile, secure, and efficient virtual networks.
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ARIA is designed to manage and optimise multi-cloud environments by unifying cost management, performance monitoring, configuration, and automation. This integrated approach simplifies the complexities of multi-cloud operations, allowing organisations to efficiently allocate and utilise resources to meet business objectives. ARIA’s cost management feature helps track and optimise spending across different cloud providers, ensuring maximum value from cloud investments.
Main benefits of VMware Cloud Foundation
Modern infrastructure
Streamline data centre management, improving security and supporting both traditional and modern applications with consistent performance and scalability.
Unified cloud experience
Simplify cloud management, enabling seamless workload mobility and consistent operations across environments
Security and resilience
Built-in features like micro-segmentation, automated patching and comprehensive disaster recovery.
What financial impact will VCF have on my organisation?
VMware shared stats from an IDC report on the financial impacts of VCF;
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