The Foundation for Digital Transformation
Capitalize on the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
Learn what CIOs need to know about the business opportunities and capabilities of the SDDC in this interview with VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger.
Delivering High-Value IT Outcomes
Boost your data center efficiency and drive innovation.
Validated Designs for your Software-Defined Data Center
Get the most from your SDDC with comprehensive, system-level designs and architectures that include recommended operations for Day 0, Day 1, Day 2, and beyond.
Why Choose a VMware-Powered Software-Defined Data Center
Leverages a Fully Virtualized Infrastructure
The software-defined approach extends industry-leading vSphere virtualization beyond compute to network and storage, making data center services as easy and inexpensive to configure and manage as virtual machines. Dell EMC VxRack SDDC, a turnkey hyperconverged solution powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, is a fully integrated hardware and software rack-scale engineered system. Both seamlessly integrate with existing VMware ecosystem management solutions for streamlined deployment and management in VMware environments.
Delivered On a Flexible Mix of Private and Hybrid Clouds
Applications and services can be provisioned to run seamlessly on both on-premises private clouds and secure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms. You can utilize virtually any hardware, minimizing the need for specialized infrastructure.
Governed by a Comprehensive Cloud Management Platform
Unified, policy-driven technology automates and manages IT services across heterogeneous clouds. Unlike legacy solutions, the platform is purpose-built to orchestrate dynamic software-defined workloads.
Customer-Ready Software-Defined Data Center Solutions
VMware Cloud Foundation provides integrated cloud infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, and security) and cloud management services to run enterprise applications in both private and public environments.
Modernize Your Data Center

Deliver Digital Infrastructure That Supports Modern Apps Anywhere
Manage and run consistent infrastructure and operations across data centers and public clouds, delivering applications with the speed and agility to support business innovation and growth. Built on a software-defined hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) architecture of natively integrated compute, network, and storage virtualization technologies, SDDC solutions by VMware bring self-driving operations and management for a consistent operational model on any cloud.
Benefits of Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) Solutions
Higher Efficiency and Lower Costs
Virtualized IT services and automated operations management drive new levels of resource utilization and staff productivity.
Application Provisioning in Minutes
Policy-based configuration lets you deliver workloads in minutes, with resources that adjust automatically changing business demands.
The Right Availability and Security for Every Application
Automated business continuity and virtualization-aware security provide exceptional uptime and control of resources.
Any Workload Delivered Anywhere
Run both new and existing applications across multiple platforms and clouds, with instant delivery to any user on any desktop or mobile device.
VMware Products for Your SDDC
VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud Foundation provides the simplest path to hybrid cloud through an integrated software platform for both private and public cloud environments. Gain a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, network, and security, along with cloud management capabilities. The result is simple, secure, and agile cloud infrastructure on premises and as-a-service public cloud environments.
vSAN
Create radically simple shared storage for virtual machines from server-based storage, enabling a resilient, high-performance scale-out architecture that reduces TCO by as much as 50 percent.
NSX
Gain a network virtualization platform that deploys on top of existing physical network hardware and supports the newest fabrics and geometries from all vendors. Existing applications and monitoring tools work smoothly with NSX without any modifications.
vSphere
Extend virtualization to storage and network services and add automated, policy-based provisioning and management.As the foundation for VMware’s complete Software-Defined Data Center platform, vSphere is the starting point for building your SDDC.
VMware Aria Suite
Enjoy an enterprise-ready, cloud management platform the offers the industry’s most complete solution for managing a heterogeneous hybrid cloud. Delivered in Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise editions, VMware Aria Suite enables enterprises to support Intelligent Operations, Automated IT to IaaS, and DevOps-Ready IT use cases.
vCloud Suite
Get VMware’s industry-leading vSphere hypervisor and VMware Aria Suite in a single package. Now available with portable licensing units, VMware Aria Suite can be used to manage vSphere, non-vSphere, and public cloud workloads.
VMware Cloud on AWS
Run applications across vSphere-based cloud environments with access to a broad range of on-demand, AWS services. Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, this service integrates vSphere, vSAN, and NSX along with VMware vCenter management and is optimized to run on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure. With VMware HCX, you can quickly perform large-scale bi-directional migrations between on-premises and VMware Cloud on AWS environments.
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi Networks) provides multi-cloud load balancing, web application firewall and application analytics across on-premises data centers and any cloud. The software-defined platform delivers applications consistently across bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers to ensure a fast, scalable, and secure application experience.