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name: vmwaresolutions-eos-vms
title: End of Marketing for VMware on IBM Cloud
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: 2026-04-16
---

> ## 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.

# End of Marketing for VMware on IBM Cloud
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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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Effective 31 October 2025, IBM Cloud will no longer sell VMware on IBM Cloud offerings to customers who do not have at least one active VMware workload that is running on IBM Cloud before that date.

Due to changes to the Broadcom VSCP (VMware Cloud Services Provider) partner program, IBM® is no longer permitted to sell VMware licenses to customers who do not have at least one active VMware workload that is running on IBM Cloud before 31 October 2025.

Existing customers can continue to use and expand their VMware environments, but the following restrictions apply beginning on 31 October 2025:

* Existing customers cannot order a different VMware offering than what they currently use.
* The following restrictions apply only to the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a Service offering:
   * Workload expansion is limited to your current regions or resource pools.
   * The consumption model is limited to your existing model: on-demand or reserved.
   * Using the Veeam® Backup service for virtual machine (VM) backup is not available if you are not already using the service to actively back up your VMs.
   * Existing usage of the Veeam Backup service cannot be expanded beyond your current regions.
   * New dedicated Veeam Scale-out Backup Repositories (SOBRs) are limited to Cloud Object Storage only storage.

*Existing customer* is defined as an IBM Cloud account (or Enterprise child account) with at least one active VMware workload on IBM Cloud before 31 October 2025. If an existing customer has multiple IBM Cloud accounts, only those accounts that have the VMware offerings before 31 October 2025 are allowed to expand their environments based on the restrictions that are stated earlier.

*VMware workload* is defined as:

* At least one deployed host machine on the following IBM Cloud offerings:
   * VMware on Bare Metal Servers for Classic, including IBM Cloud for Government environments
   * VCF for Classic - Automated
   * VCF for Classic - Flexible
   * VCF for VPC
   * VCF as a Service single-tenant
* At least one deployed or migrated VM on VCF as a Service multitenant

This notice addresses End of Marketing only and it does not reflect End of Support.
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For more information, see the [FAQ for EOM for VMware on IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-faq-eos-vms&format=markdown).