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name: vmwaresolutions-vrw-overview
title: Regulated Workloads overview
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.

# Regulated Workloads overview
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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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The Regulated Workloads offering includes a secure-by-default architecture that follows the IBM® unique policy controls framework. It also includes continuous compliance monitoring and the highest level of data encryption FIPS 140-2 Level 4.

Review the following specifications:
* Regulated Workloads are based on VMware NSX-T™ and VMware vSphere® 7.
* [Hyper Protect Crypto Services](https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/hyper-protect-crypto-services), [KMIP for VMware](https://cloud.ibm.com/infrastructure/vmware-solutions/console/servicestandalonenew/KMIPAdapter), and [Direct Link](https://cloud.ibm.com/interconnectivity/direct-link) are required.
* The **Private network only** option is available for all clusters. The **Public and private network** option is available only for the gateway cluster.

## Options not available for Regulated Workloads
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The following options or settings are not available for Regulated Workloads:
* Local disks
* High performance with Intel® Optane
* vSAN™ deduplication and compression
* Selection of existing VLANs
* Single public Windows® VSI for Active Directory™ DNS configuration