VMWare-Cloud-Foundation

Overview

VMWare Cloud Foundation is a hybrid cloud platform for managing Virtual Machines and orchestration of containers.

Technology

It is built on full-stack HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure)

Features

It provides:

• Consistent

• Secure Infrastructure

• Operations across Private & Public Cloud

• Increase flexibility with Hybrid Cloud

Editions

• Starter - Automates Infrastructure deployment and provisioning
• Standard - Adopt Cloud Management capabilities in an On-Premises Data Center
• Advanced - Introduced VMWare-based cloud operating model with advanced cloud management tools.
• Enterprise - Full enterprise cloud operating model with advanced management, networking, and storage.

Benefits

• Simplified Management

            Provide optimized performance, resilience and availability for Kubernetes Cluster with integrated containers orchestration.

• Flexible Deployment Options 

            Provide flexible deployment options for both private & public cloud. Also provide ability to choose from self-managed or HCI-as-a-Service option.

• Better application performance - 

            With Performance storage and Load-balancing across every environment, provides better application performance and reliability.

• Simple and Standardized Architecture 

            With best-in-class compute, storage, networking and management tools, provides automated Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) delivery.

• Enhancement in Scaling and IT Efficiency 

            Provide ability to extend same infrastructure for On-Premises or for cloud to manage workloads.

• Intrinsic Security 

            Ensure enterprise level security with full-stack Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) platform that consolidates traditional virtual machines and modern container workloads.