VMware Cloud Foundation 5 Enterprise (per Core, 3-Year Subscription)

VMware Cloud Foundation 5 Enterprise is Broadcom's flagship Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) stack, unifying vSphere hypervisor, vSAN distributed storage, NSX network virtualization, and ARIA Cloud Management into a single integrated platform. Launched in Q3 2023 post-Broadcom acquisition, VCF 5 represents the industry-leading enterprise architecture for hybrid cloud deployments, supporting both on-premises and cloud-hosted deployments with unified operational management. The Enterprise edition is optimized for large-scale datacenter environments requiring advanced security, compliance, and multi-cloud orchestration capabilities across hundreds of nodes and thousands of virtual machines.

VCF 5 simplifies datacenter modernization through its validated, pre-integrated architecture that reduces deployment complexity and accelerates time-to-value. The platform delivers industry-standard compute virtualization, policy-driven storage provisioning, microsegmentation networking, and AI-driven lifecycle management within a single unified control plane. Per-core subscription licensing enables transparent capacity planning and cost alignment with actual infrastructure utilization across diverse workload profiles.

The Enterprise tier unlock advanced features including cross-vCenter NSX, advanced security modules, automated capacity optimization, and premium support tiers. Organizations leverage VCF 5 as the foundational infrastructure layer for digital transformation initiatives, enabling agile application delivery, sovereign cloud compliance, and seamless multi-cloud federation across public and private cloud providers.

Ideal for

• Large enterprise datacenter consolidation and virtualization with 500+ physical servers and complex multi-tenant workload isolation requirements
• Sovereign cloud and regulated compliance environments (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, government classification) requiring cryptographic isolation and data residency enforcement
• Multi-region hybrid cloud operations with unified management across on-premises VCF deployments and public cloud extensions for disaster recovery and burst workloads
• High-performance computing and analytics clusters requiring software-defined infrastructure with predictable low-latency performance and guaranteed resource allocation
• Kubernetes and containerized application platforms leveraging VCF as the underlying infrastructure layer with vSphere Pod support and automated cluster lifecycle management
• Business-critical application modernization with zero-downtime migrations, active-active redundancy, and automatic failover across distributed datacenters

Technical specifications

Available from Omnixon Global. Submit an RFQ and our team will confirm configuration and availability for your order.