Broadcom announced the latest updates to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), its flagship private cloud platform. The new release includes several key advancements designed to modernize infrastructure, accelerate innovation, and simplify cloud operations.
VCF now includes a new VCF Import capability, which enables customers to integrate existing vSphere and vSAN environments into the platform, centralizing management and optimizing resources. The platform also provides full support for vSAN Max and vSAN ESA stretched clusters, offering petabyte-scale disaggregated storage and active-active availability.
The new VCF Edge configuration is optimized for edge use cases, providing scalable, cost-efficient, and flexible management. VCF also simplifies application deployment and management with quick start templates, easy network integration, and advanced performance insights.
In addition, the platform offers Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) as an independent service, delivering asynchronous TKG releases to align with upstream Kubernetes. VCF networking enables developers to focus on coding and testing, facilitates better collaboration, and supports more efficient CI/CD pipelines.
The new release also includes several security and resilience enhancements, including ESXi Live Patching, Flexible VCF Component upgrade, and dual DPU support with vSphere Distributed Services Engine. vSAN Data Protection enables administrators to more easily protect and recover VMs from accidental deletions and ransomware attacks.
“VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s first private-cloud platform to offer the combined power of public and private clouds with unmatched operational simplicity and proven total cost of ownership value,” said Paul Turner, Vice President of Products, VMware Cloud Foundation Division, Broadcom. “With our latest release, VCF is delivering on key requirements driven by customer input. The new VCF Import functionality will be a game changer in accelerating VCF adoption and improving time to value. We are also delivering a set of new capabilities that helps IT more quickly meet the needs of developers without increasing business risk. This latest release of VCF puts us squarely on the path to delivering on the full promise of VCF for our customers.”
