VMware vSphere vSphere is the industry-leading compute virtualization platform, and your first step to application modernization. It has been rearchitected with native Kubernetes to allow customers to modernize the 70 million+ workloads now running on vSphere. Now, modern containerized applications can be run alongside existing enterprise applications in a simple and unified manner using vSphere with Tanzu.

What is vSphere?

vSphere is the industry-leading compute virtualization platform, and your first step to application modernization. It has been rearchitected with native Kubernetes to allow customers to modernize the 70 million+ workloads now running on vSphere. Now, modern containerized applications can be run alongside existing enterprise applications in a simple and unified manner using vSphere with Tanzu.

Focus, Plan and Execute Your Upgrade to VMware vSphere 7

Discover how vSphere 7 delivers new features and capabilities, from vSphere Lifecycle Manager for streamlined vSphere & vSAN updates, vMotion for maximized vSphere performance, to leveraging vCenter Server Profiles for easy configuration updates. We are excited about VMware vSphere 7 and what it means for our customers as the foundational platform for virtual workloads, both on-premises and cloud. 

Benefits of vSphere

Deliver Developer-Ready Infrastructure

Drop-in enterprise-grade Kubernetes on existing infrastructure within an hour using the newly introduced vSphere with Tanzu. Align DevOps and IT teams, and simplify cloud operations.

Simplify Operations

Deliver AI/ML infrastructure using GPUs. Simplify software upgrades, patching and firmware updates, and secure your hybrid cloud infrastructure using intrinsic security.

Scale Without Compromise

Deliver industry-leading Monster VMs designed for SAP HANA, Epic Operational Databases, and more. Scale your vSphere infrastructure to support 50% more hosts per cluster.

Solutions

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)

Take advantage of the elastic infrastructure for AI/ML applications using cloud pools of hardware accelerators such as GPUs.

Big Data and Modern Data Applications

Simplify your big data infrastructure management while making it more cost-effective. Minimize downtime with uniform, cost-effective failover protection; easily organize, prioritize, and share data centre resources for intelligent decision making.

Remote Office and Branch Offices (ROBO)

Manage your remote and branch offices with little or no local IT staff. Enable rapid provisioning of servers, minimization of host configuration drift, and visibility into regulatory compliance across multiple sites.

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Get insights faster with infrastructure on-demand, centralized management, data governance and control of sensitive data. The scale-out edition of vSphere is custom-built with high-performance computing workloads in mind.


You have questions about Kubernetes.
We have answers.

Our latest datasheet will help you get up to speed on the latest, greatest edition of vSphere, and how you can benefit. You’ll learn:

  • What vSphere with Tanzu is
  • How it benefits both VMware Administrators and developers
  • The differences between a vSphere Pod Service and Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster
  • How to get started


It’s the ideal way to put the power of Kubernetes at your fingertips.

VMware vSphere with Kubernetes 101