Cloud Foundation 9 arrived in June, completing a two-year integration of compute, storage, and networking capabilities. VMware maintains vSphere Standard and vSphere Enterprise Plus for basic virtualization while upgrading vSphere Foundation to version 9. Upgrades to Standard and Enterprise Plus are deprioritized as VMware focuses on ongoing VCF work and encourages customers toward Cloud Foundation. VMware plans to port its stack to the Arm architecture and will deliver early, RFQ-style code for customers who demand Arm, accepting that the initial offering will not be a full product while it prepares for future demand growth.
Opinions differ about the urgency of the port. Some execs we spoke to said that users of VMware's experimental hypervisor for Arm are keen to see it supported, and for VCF to reach Arm. Others said that these users are superfans whose opinion doesn't reflect mainstream customers' total lack of interest in Arm servers for the moment. VMware is moving ahead regardless, with the aim of being ready to deliver a product once demand starts to grow.
Upgrades for vSphere VMware still sells two low-end virtualization products - vSphere Standard for test and dev and vSphere Enterprise Plus for basic server virtualization, both of which include the ESX hypervisor and the vCenter virtual machine manager. For those who need more than the basics, VMware also offers vSphere Foundation, which it upgraded to version 9. vSphere Standard and Enterprise Plus remain unchanged.
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