Getting started with VMware

VMware for IBM Cloud® Classic infrastructure provides an industry-leading virtualization platform that abstracts processor, memory, storage, and networking resources to create multiple Virtual Servers on a single physical server. Multiple physical servers can be clustered together to create a private cloud.

IBM Cloud® provides the unique capability for customers to provision dedicated Bare Metal Servers upon which they can deploy their own VMware-based private cloud. For example, you can enable the creation of a hybrid cloud where on-premises VMware based servers, tooling, and processes can be extended into the public cloud.

Table 1. Getting started with VMware in IBM Cloud®
Get Started
Learn about VMware and IBM Cloud.
Review licensing options and storage options.
If you want to deploy a basic single-site VMware environment in an IBM Cloud® data center, see Getting Started with VMware vSphere overview.

Next Steps

After you have a basic environment configured, you can manage licenses.

For more information about the advanced reference architecture that outlines a hybrid cloud configuration, see VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) on IBM Cloud®.