VMware vSphere Foundation – Subscription Prepaid Commit – Per Core (VSP-PL-TD-TL)

VMware vSphere Foundation Subscription

VMware vSphere Foundation – Subscription Prepaid Commit – Per Core (VSP-PL-TD-TL)

VMware vSphere Foundation includes vSphere Enterprise Plus, vCenter Standard, Tanzu Kubernetes Grid, and Aria Operations. VMware vSphere Foundation Subscription includes Production Support and is licensed Per Core with a minimum of 16 Cores per CPU required.

Benefits

• Provide business continuity and always-available IT
• Reduce IT footprint and simplify management
• Save on IT hardware costs
• Improve service levels and application quality
• Strengthen security and data protection

VMware vSphere 8 is the enterprise workload platform that brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads. 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 Distributed Services Engine

Introducing vSphere Distributed Services Engine, formerly Project Monterey. vSphere Distributed Services Engine unlocks the power of Data Processing Units (DPUs) for hardware accelerated data processing to improve infrastructure performance, boost infrastructure security and simplify DPU lifecycle management. vSphere 8 makes using DPUs easy for workloads to take advantage of these benefits.

Emergence of the Data Processing Unit

Data Processing Units (DPU) exist today and live in the hardware layer, similar to a PCIe device like a NIC or GPU. Today networking, storage and host management services run in the instance of ESXi virtualizing the x86 compute layer.

Meet vSphere Distributed Services Engine

In vSphere 8, an additional instance of ESXi is installed directly on the Data Processing Unit. This allows ESXi services to be offloaded to the DPU for increased performance.

In vSphere 8 GA. we support greenfield installations with support for network offloading with NSX. vSphere Distributed Services Engine is life-cycle managed using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. When remediating a host that contains a DPU ESXi installation, the DPU ESXi version is always remediated with the parent host and kept in version lock-step.

Simple Configuration for Network Offloads

Using a vSphere Distributed Switch version 8.0 and NSX, network services are offloaded to the DPU, allowing for increased network performance with no x86 CPU overhead, enhanced visibility for the network traffic and the security, isolation and protection you would expect from NSX.

VMware vSphere Foundation Subscription
VMware vSphere Foundation Subscription
VMware vSphere Foundation Subscription