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name: vmwaresolutions-eos-vrw
title: End of Marketing for Regulated Workloads
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.

# End of Marketing for Regulated Workloads
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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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**End of Marketing**: As of 31 October 2025, new deployments of VMware Solutions offerings are no longer available for new customers. Existing customers can still use and expand their active VMware® workloads on IBM Cloud®. For more information, see [End of Marketing for VMware on IBM Cloud](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-eos-vms&format=markdown).
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IBM Cloud® is announcing the End of Marketing for VMware Regulated Workloads. As of 17 July 2025, new customers cannot provision Regulated Workloads instances.

Support for existing customers continues. Existing customers can continue to add or delete clusters, hosts, storage, and add-on services for existing instances. Existing customers can also view or delete their Regulated Workloads instances.

This announcement is only an End of Marketing notice for Regulated Workloads. No date is set for End of Support or End of Life for Regulated Workloads.
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