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name: vmwaresolutions-design_overview
title: VMware Solutions components
description: As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
last-updated: 2025-10-24
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> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?format=markdown
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# VMware Solutions components
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As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
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IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions provides automation to deploy VMware® technology components into IBM Cloud® data centers across the globe.

The offerings in this solution include VMware Cloud Foundation™ products within an automatically deployed and configured cluster: VMware vSphere ESXi™, VMware vCenter Server® Appliance, VMware NSX-T™, and optionally, VMware vSAN™.

The architecture consists of a single cloud region. You can extend into more cloud regions that are located in another geography and in another IBM Cloud pod within the same data center. A region is defined as a unique VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instance. This design also allows for automated expansion and contraction of virtual capacity within a VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instance.

![Solution components of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions](../../images/vcsv4radiagrams-ra-full.svg "The solution comprises physical infrastructure, virtual infrastructure, infrastructure management, and common services."){: caption="Solution components of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions" caption-side="bottom"}

## Related links
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* [Virtual infrastructure design](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-design_virtualinfrastructure&format=markdown)
* [Common services design](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-design_commonservice&format=markdown)
* [Infrastructure management design](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-design_infrastructuremgmt&format=markdown)