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VCF 9

Broadcom's single private-cloud platform: vSphere, vSAN, NSX and operations in one engineered stack.

FOCUS · THE PACKAGED PRIVATE CLOUDOne stack, one lifecycle: modern VMware is VCF — and it must be understood well
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01 · What it is

VMware Cloud Foundation 9, made clear.

Broadcom made VCF THE platform: vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Operations and Automation in a single stack with prescriptive deployment and a coordinated lifecycle (SDDC Manager). VCF 9 (GA 2025, today 9.1) brings the cloud experience on-prem: fleet management, self-service, data services. The licensing too now only speaks VCF/VVF: understanding what pays off IS the project.

9.1
the current release: fleet management and matured services
1 lifecycle
the whole stack updated as one product: the end of the version tetris
Subscription
Broadcom licensing: cores, bundles and renewals to negotiate informed
VMware Cloud Foundation 9
OFFICIAL VMWARE BRANDING · VCF 9
CONSOLE REALE · VCF 9.1 OPERATIONS · FONTE: VMWARE BLOG
REAL CONSOLE · VCF 9.1 OPERATIONS · SOURCE: VMWARE BLOG
02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

The stack

VMs, containers (VKS), servicesthe private cloud's workloads
vSphere
vSAN
NSX
compute · storage · network, together
Operations & Automationmonitoring and self-service included
SDDC Manager · lifecyclethe stack managed as one
The private cloud, turnkey

The bill first of all

Per-core licensing, bundles and alternatives: we do the REAL numbers of the renewal — stay, migrate to VCF or exit.

Fleet design

Management and workload domains, stretched or not: the prescriptive architecture must be adapted with judgment.

An orderly migration

From scattered vSphere to VCF: brownfield conversion or greenfield with vMotion — planned, not suffered.

Operations exploited

Capacity, costs and compliance included in the license: might as well really use them.

03 · In depth

VCF 9: the unified platform

VMware Cloud Foundation packages vSphere, vSAN, NSX and operations into a platform with a single lifecycle: the SDDC Manager (and in VCF 9 the unified fleet management) orchestrates bring-up, patches and upgrades of the whole stack; the workload domains separate the environments, the management domain holds the control plane; the Broadcom licenses are per-core subscriptions (minimum 16 per CPU) and VCF is the bundle the whole portfolio converges on.

  • Lifecycle unico — the stack updated as a coherent whole: the compatibility matrices retired
  • Workload domain — dedicated clusters per scope with their own NSX: the blast radius contained
  • Fleet management — several VCF instances from one panel: the multi-site governed
  • Subscription a core — minimum 16 cores/CPU: the licensing to design well
  • Import brownfield — the existing vSphere/vSAN environments brought into VCF without a rebuild
  • Private cloud vero — self-service, automation and operations included: the alternative to public
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

1
one lifecycle for the whole stack: SDDC Manager orchestrates
16
minimum cores licensed per CPU
9
the current major: the portfolio's consolidation
mesi
of work saved on full-stack upgrades
The post-Broadcom era must be governed: license assessment, TCO and the VCF-vs-alternatives roadmap — the strategy we build together.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Those staying on VMware

The reference platform, done well.

Regulated private clouds

The certifiable stack with integrated operations.

Stack consolidation

From six products to one platform with a single lifecycle.

On VMware today the question is strategic: we give you the numbers to decide — and the hand to execute.