VMware vSphere Foundation 8 - 1 year

Mware vSphere Foundation 8 is a modernized virtualization platform tailored for today's hybrid, multi-cloud, and AI-driven environments. It is part of VMware’s next-generation strategy to provide a consistent, secure, and high-performance foundation for both traditional enterprise applications and modern workloads like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

Key features and capabilities include:

• Core Virtualization: At its heart, vSphere Foundation 8 offers the proven virtualization technology VMware is known for, enabling businesses to abstract, pool, and manage compute resources efficiently across clusters of servers.

• Intrinsic Security: Security is deeply integrated into the platform with features like VM encryption, Secure Boot, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) support, and runtime security, helping protect workloads without needing external tools.

• Lifecycle Management: Simplifies the updating, patching, and management of both the vSphere infrastructure and underlying hardware using vSphere Lifecycle Manager, ensuring consistency and reducing operational overhead.

• Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integration: Provides native Kubernetes support, allowing IT teams to manage both VMs and containers side by side, facilitating cloud-native application development and deployment.

• AI and ML Readiness: With support for high-performance hardware accelerators (like GPUs) and optimized workload placement, vSphere Foundation 8 is well-suited for modern AI/ML workloads that demand intensive compute and fast storage.

• Distributed Services Engine: Introduces support for offloading networking and security services to Data Processing Units (DPUs), improving performance and security by freeing up CPU resources on the hosts.

• Scalability and Performance: Offers significant enhancements in cluster scale, VM size, and host capabilities compared to earlier vSphere versions, making it future-ready for growing enterprise demands.

• Multi-Cloud Support: Integrates easily with VMware Cloud services, giving businesses the flexibility to extend, scale, and manage workloads across private and public clouds seamlessly.

Use Case:
vSphere Foundation 8 is ideal for organizations modernizing their IT infrastructure to support both legacy applications and new AI-driven, cloud-native workloads, delivering enhanced operational efficiency, faster innovation, and improved security.