Modernize and migrate your VMware workloads to the cloud with IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions and reach up to 75% reduction in operational efforts, 40% reduction in data center costs and 40% improvement in developer productivity.

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions offers various options. For customers seeking flexibility and full administrative control, IBM provides a self-managed VMware service with automated deployment. 

For those preferring simplicity and quick onboarding, IBM offers a managed VMware service, where IBM operates the infrastructure with 99.99% availability and handles software lifecycle management, including upgrades. Customers can easily deploy resources on either dedicated single-tenant infrastructure or multitenant infrastructure, available on-demand or reserved.

VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service is an IBM managed service, allowing you to configure and deploy virtual data centers on either single or multi-tenant infrastructure. 

With the single-tenant model, virtual data centers can be deployed on a highly available instance of vCloud Director using dedicated computing and storage resources. You can customize the hardware type and scale capacity as needed.

With the multitenant model, virtual data centers can be deployed using virtualized infrastructure (vCPUs, RAM & storage), leaving the hardware capacity management to IBM.

VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic consists of self-managed solutions, providing options with different capabilites. 

The Automated and Flexible options allow you to configure VMware virtual environments and custom compute, storage and network resources. Tenants can enjoy enhanced security and isolation levels and customise environments with a vast array of hardware and networking options. 

The Cyber Recovery option provides air-gapped protection, immutable storage and rapid recovery of applications and data for ransomware protection.

The Regulated Workloads option includes a secure-by-default architecture that follows IBM’s unique policy controls framework and the highest level of data encryption (FIPS 140-2 Level 4). 

VMware Cloud Foundation for VPC provides an advanced hybrid cloud platform, including software-defined services for compute, cloud management, storage, security, and networking, capable of running traditional virtual workloads and containerized workloads in a Cloud Foundation environment. 

IBM offers 20 industry-leading add-on services to provide additional capabilities and end-to-end value for cyber resiliency, data protection and advanced management use cases. IBM also created an extensive learning centre, helping users to create and manage their environments.

IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions offers the most flexible and secure solutions for your VMware workloads in the cloud.