Simplicity Across Clouds Is Rare
91% of executives are looking to improve “consistency across [their] public cloud environments."
Applications Need to Be Modernized
68% of developers want to expand use of modern application frameworks, APIs and services.
Distributed Work Models Are Here to Stay
72% of enterprise employees are working from non-traditional environments.
Security Is a Top-Down Concern
Risk related to security, data and privacy issues remains the #1 multi-cloud challenge.
Get on a Faster Path to Prod
Build and deploy quickly and securely on any public cloud or on-premises Kubernetes cluster.
Simplify Kubernetes Operations
Build and operate a secure, multi-cloud container infrastructure at scale.
Pair with App Development Experts
Unlock value by modernizing your existing apps and building innovative new products.
Build, run, secure, and manage all of your apps across any cloud with application modernization solutions and guidance from VMware.
11 Security Practices to Manage Container Lifecycle
Get recommended practices for DevSecOps teams that desire a more modern app methodology.
Connect and Run with Confidence
Reduce time-to-value, lower costs, and enhance security while modernizing your private and public cloud infrastructure.
Enhance Digital Experiences
Securely, reliably, and optimally connect applications in the cloud and at the edge to deliver unique experiences.
Run enterprise apps at scale with a consistent cloud infrastructure across public clouds, data centers and edge environments.
VMware Research: Multi-Cloud Strategies
Learn why enterprises find multi-cloud strategies critical for success.
Deliver an Engaging Experience
Put employees first with device choice, flexibility, and seamless, consistent, high-quality experiences.
Secure Today’s Anywhere Workspace
Ease the move to Zero Trust with situational intelligence and connected control points.
Automate the Workspace
Manage to outcomes — not tasks — with intelligent compliance, workflow and performance management.
Enable any employee to work from anywhere, anytime with seamless employee experiences.
Remote Work Is No Longer Optional
Shift from supporting remote work to becoming an anywhere organization.
Secure & Connect Workloads
Operationalize consistent security and networking across apps, users, and entities with transparency built into our tools.
Protect APIs — the New Endpoints
Increase app velocity and centrally manage, secure, connect, and govern your clusters no matter where they reside.
Be Future-Ready
Get built-in threat intelligence spanning users, endpoints and networks to evolve your protection in a dynamic landscape.
Deliver security and networking as a built-in distributed service across users, apps, devices, and workloads in any cloud.
Protect Your Multi-Cloud Environments
Discover the unique characteristics of malware and how to stay ahead of attacks.
Work with a VMware Partner
Partners deliver outcomes with their expertise and VMware technology, creating exceptional value for our mutual customers.
Become a Partner
Together with our partners, VMware is building the new multi-cloud ecosystem positioned to become essential to our customers.
With thousands of partners worldwide, we are positioned to help customers scale their business, drive innovation and transform their customer experience.
Working Together with Partners for Customer Success
See how we work with a global partner to help companies prepare for multi-cloud.
Bring cloud benefits to your on-premises workloads with powerful new features in the latest release of vSphere, the enterprise workload platform for traditional and next-generation applications.
Get IDC Research’s opinion on how the launch of vSphere+ has aligned vSphere with modern trends of subscription payment models and attached cloud services.
Transform on-premises infrastructure with cloud integration. Boost productivity with central management, global insights, and automation through the VMware Cloud Console. Power up with add-on cloud services.
Provide optimal workload placement decision by factoring in DRAM and PMEM bandwidth and latency requirements. Efficiently reduce your IT maintenance window by performing simultaneous ESXi upgrades on multiple hosts.
Meet the throughput and latency needs of distributed workloads by accelerating networking functions on the DPU. Free up GPU resources for faster AI/ML model training and higher complexity models.
Easily access developer services through a cloud console. Improve resilience of containerized workloads across geographies. Enjoy greater deployment flexibility with custom images and Pinniped-based authentication.
Get the enterprise-grade data center, cloud and edge infrastructure you need for advanced AI/ML services and workloads.
Modernize virtual infrastructure by using DPUs to accelerate network functions and secure workloads. Run modern distributed workloads like event streaming services with lower latency and improved throughput.
Simplify big data infrastructure management and minimize downtime with cost-effective, uniform failover protection. With vSphere, you can easily organize, prioritize and share data center resources for intelligent decision-making.
Get insights faster with infrastructure on demand, centralized management, and data governance—including control of sensitive data. The vSphere HPC option is custom-built to scale with high-performance computing workloads.
Manage your remote and branch offices with minimal local IT staff, or even none. Enable rapid provisioning of servers, minimize host configuration drift, and gain visibility into regulatory compliance across multiple sites.
With rapid provisioning of servers through virtualization, we can now scale horizontally to handle bursts, and we’ve been able to successfully handle surges.
Deploying vSphere and vSAN got rid of the legacy three-tier architecture. We adopted a hyperconverged architecture, which helped us reduce TCO by 15%.
Virtualization has allowed us to expose core services across our apps in a scalable manner…and completely redefine the user experience.
Compare features and capabilities of vSphere versions 6.5 - 8
See what partner are saying about the powerful new features in the latest release of vSphere 8.
Kubernetes workload management
Hybrid cloud platform
vSphere server management software
Flash-optimized, native vSphere storage
Full-stack network and security virtualization
vSphere 8 is a major release which brings benefits of the cloud to on-premises workloads with cloud integration through the VMware Cloud Console It supercharges performance with DPU, and GPU based acceleration, enhances operational efficiency through the VMware Cloud Console, seamlessly integrates with add-on hybrid cloud services and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime that runs containers alongside VMs. vSphere 8 version release will be available through the various vSphere product line offerings, including vSphere Standard edition, vSphere Enterprise Plus edition, as well as vSphere+. See the vSphere 8 datasheet and vSphere 8 version comparison for more details.
vSphere Distributed Services Engine modernizes virtual infrastructure by offloading infrastructure functions from CPU to DPU. It enables modern distributed workloads to take advantage of resource savings, accelerated networking and enhanced workload security. It improves DPU lifecycle management with workflows integrated with vSphere. Learn more about vSphere Distributed Services Engine.
For pricing information, refer to the vSphere Product Line Licensing, Pricing and Packaging Whitepaper.
vSphere+ is a new subscription-based offering that consists of both on-premises and cloud components that interact with each other. The on-premises components include cloud gateways, vCenter instances and ESXi hosts. The cloud components include various cloud services for admins (or IT operations) and developers (or DevOps) that augment and enhance on-premises capabilities, all accessible within the VMware Cloud Console. Cloud gateways connect your vCenter instances to the VMware Cloud Console, where you can centrally manage on-premises infrastructure and access cloud services.
Yes. vSphere+ is precision-engineered to provide a simple, non-disruptive upgrade for customers already using vSphere. Existing vSphere Enterprise Plus licenses can be easily converted to subscription-based entitlements. Please contact your VMware partner or sales representative to start your upgrade to vSphere+.
vSphere+ includes cloud services that are delivered as a service. Your vCenter instances and ESXi hosts remain on-premises.
Please contact your VMware partner or sales representative to find out how you can subscribe to vSphere+.
Please contact your VMware partner or sales representative to try vSphere+ for free in your environment.
Getting started with vSphere+ is easy. Once you subscribe, you will receive an onboarding email from VMware with setup instructions, and the process takes about an hour.
Yes, vSphere+ supports ESXi version 6.7 or later. vCenter instances need to be updated to the latest version.
There are no special hardware requirements for vSphere+ beyond the basic vSphere requirements.
With vSphere+ you can:
See a detailed set of features and capabilities available in vSphere+
vSphere+ supports traditional workloads based on VMs, plus modern workloads based on containers. There is no difference between vSphere+ and vSphere in the types of workloads supported.
VMware is developing vSphere+ add-on services to expedite disaster recovery, ransomware protection, capacity planning and more. For a list of add-on services currently available for purchase or in development, contact your VMware partner or sales representative.
vSphere+ includes extensive developer services, including VM service, Storage service, Network service, Registry service, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid service, Tanzu integrated services, Tanzu Mission-Control Essentials and more. These services are included with vSphere+ at no additional charge
vSphere+ includes extensive admin services, including Global Inventory service, Event View service, Security Health Check service, VM Provisioning service, Lifecycle Management service, Configuration Management serviceand more. These services are included with vSphere+ at no additional charge. See a detailed list of features and descriptions in vSphere+.
vSphere+ delivers the benefits of the cloud through a secure cloud gateway that links your on-premises vCenter instances to VMware Cloud. The vSphere+ cloud gateway uses industry-standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) to protect network connections and does not copy or share your proprietary data to the cloud. The gateway allows VMware to initiate maintenance and support operations, ensuring those operations are secure by applying traditional security concepts like privilege separation and least privilege.
None of your workloads or on-premises vSphere infrastructure are moved to the cloud. Your workloads continue to run on-premises on ESXi hosts. vSphere+ allows you to centrally manage your on-premises environment from a cloud console and to enhance management with cloud services.
If you do choose to migrate on-premises workloads to the cloud, vSphere+ will make this easier. You can move workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS, using the hybrid linked mode capability built into the vSphere+ cloud gateway.
If you lose your connection to the cloud, only access to cloud services and the cloud console will be affected. vCenter instances, ESXi hosts, and workloads will continue to run normally, and can be managed from vCenter (through the vSphere client).
The only additional tool needed to unlock vSphere+ benefits is the VMware Cloud Console, accessible through a web browser.
VMware Cloud Console can be reached at https://vmc.vmware.com. Once logged in, you can review and subscribe to available VMware services, including vSphere+.
