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IBM-managed VMware Cloud Foundation instance that includes VMware Cloud Director. Provides virtual data centers with cost-effective and flexible capacity and scalability.
IBM-managed VMware Cloud Foundation instance that includes VMware Cloud Director. Provides dedicated host-based workloads with scalable compute, network, and storage.
Self-managed single-tenant infrastructure for enhanced security and compliance. Deploys a VMware virtual environment by using custom compute, storage, and network resources to best fit your business needs.
Starting from
$127/month$127
per month
Starting from
$9,680.00/month$9,680.00
per month
Starting from
$7,293/month$7,293
per month
Recommended for
Pay for exactly what you use and need precisely to the GB of memory and vCPU
Start small and scale up as you need
Standby disaster recovery site
Cloud bursting during peak demands
Clients who want to offload the burden of maintaining the VMware environment and capacity management to IBM
Recommended for
Workloads that require consistent performance related to using dedicated infrastructure
Optimized host configuration for the use case (balanced, compute intensive, or storage intensive)
Clients who want to manage capacity at the host level
Clients who want to offload the burden of maintaining the VMware environment to IBM
Recommended for
Clients who want to leverage the speed and consistency of automation for deploying environment and adding capacity while maintaining the same level of control and visibility as they enjoy on-premises.
Minimum requirements
Not applicable: on-demand CPU, RAM, and storage, with a shared network edge
Minimum requirements
2 hosts (2-socket 32 cores and 192 GB RAM)
24 TB of shared storage
Minimum of 1 virtual data center (VDC) with a medium dedicated edge
Minimum requirements
3 hosts, minimum each 20 CPU, 192 GB RAM
5 GB shared storage
Global availability
Global availability
Global availability
Asia Pacific:Chennai (in-che), Osaka (jp-osa), Tokyo (jp-tok), Singapore, Sydney (au-syd)
Europe:Amsterdam, Frankfurt (eu-de), London (eu-gb), Madrid (eu-es), Milan, Paris
North America:Montreal, Toronto (ca-tor), Washington DC (us-east), Dallas (us-south)
Compute regional high availability
Compute regional high availability
Customer managed and initiate
Compute regional high availability
Not applicable
Network regional high availability
Network regional high availability
Customer managed and initiate
Network regional high availability
Not applicable
Infrastructure
Powered by
IBM advanced automation
Powered by
IBM advanced automation
Powered by
IBM advanced automation
Storage options
NFS or vSAN
Storage options
NFS or vSAN
Storage options
NFS or vSAN available with automation
iSCSI available with manual configuration
Minimum number of ESXi servers
Not applicable: minimum order is 1 virtual data center with 1 virtual machine (1 vCPU, 1GB of RAM, and 20 GB of storage)
Minimum number of ESXi servers
2 per cluster
Minimum number of ESXi servers
For vSAN, 4 servers.
For NSX-T instances with an NFS cluster:
Consolidated NFS clusters require at least 3 ESXi servers.
Management NFS clusters require 3 ESXi servers for production use, or at least 2 servers for nonproduction use.
All other NFS clusters require at least 2 ESXi servers.
Maximum number of ESXi servers
Managed by IBM
Maximum number of ESXi servers
25 per cluster
Maximum number of ESXi servers
59 per cluster
Cloud automated multizone deployment
Managed by IBM
Cloud automated multizone deployment
Multizone management plane
Single-zone workload clusters
Cloud automated multizone deployment
Clusters in multiple zones
Clusters spanning zones supported for regulated workloads
Day 2 operations
Day 2 capacity management
Capacity management performed by IBM
Day 2 capacity management
Customer managed and initiated add or remove host and storage
Day 2 capacity management
Automated add or delete hosts and storage
Add and delete ESXi servers
Managed by IBM
Add and delete ESXi servers
Customer managed and initiated add or remove host
Add and delete ESXi servers
Supported
Multicluster support
Managed by IBM
Multicluster support
Customer managed and initiated
Multicluster support
Supported
Updating and patching of VMware stack
Managed by IBM
Updating and patching of VMware stack
Managed by IBM
Updating and patching of VMware stack
Client-managed using native VMware tools (VMware Update Manager)
Software-defined networking
NSX-T
Software-defined networking
NSX-T
Software-defined networking
NSX-T DC SP Base, Professional, Advanced, or Enterprise Plus
NSX license upgrade options
Managed by IBM
NSX license upgrade options
Managed by IBM
NSX license upgrade options
Upgrade available from NSX Advanced to Enterprise.
vSAN license editions
Managed by IBM
vSAN license editions
Managed by IBM
vSAN license editions
vSAN Advanced or Enterprise
Add-on services
Veeam Backup
VMware Cloud Director Availability
Add-on services
Veeam Backup
VMware Cloud Director Availability
Add-on services
Supported
Transit Gateway Network Interconnect
Supported
Transit Gateway Network Interconnect
Supported
Transit Gateway Network Interconnect
Customer managed and initiated
vSphere version
Managed by IBM
vSphere version
Managed by IBM
vSphere version
8.0 Update 2
NSX edition
Managed by IBM
NSX edition
Managed by IBM
NSX edition
NSX DC SP Base, Professional, Advanced, or Enterprise Plus