End of Marketing for VMware on IBM Cloud

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.

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 (COS) 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.

For more information, see FAQ for EOM for VMware on IBM Cloud.