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$ soultec get solution/vmware -o yaml$ soultec get solution/vmware -o json$ soultec get solution/vmware -o toml$ soultec get solution/vmware -o xml$ python3 vmware.pyPS> ./vmware.ps1$ go run vmware.go$ node vmware.js

apiVersion: soultec.ch/v1kind: Solutionmetadata: name: vmware locale: en labels: vendor: VMware by Broadcom capability/virtualization: 1.42 capability/cloud: 1.92 capability/network: 2.16 capability/automation: 1.81 vendor/vmware: 0.98 annotations: source: src/content/solutions/en/vmware.md route: /en/solutions/vmware/ schema: /nerd/schema/solutions.json markdown: /en/solutions/vmware.mdspec: title: VMware tags: [virtualization, cloud, network, automation] vendors: [vmware] summary: >- Working with VMware since the turn of the century, and more deeply involved in professional services since the Broadcom acquisition than before it. photoNeed: >- A vSphere or VCF console on a real screen at soulTec: a cluster view, a running task, an inventory tree, so the reader should recognise the UI stub: false draft: false kind: vendor addon: false vendorName: VMware by Broadcom status: current sections: - heading:

The partnership

body: | Our team has specialised in VMware technology for years. Some of us have worked with it since the turn of the century, others since VMware turned server virtualization on its head. Over the years that has become a long list of finished projects. We intend to be the most capable VMware partner in Switzerland. That means our engineers keep up with what is being released, and keep training. - heading:

After Broadcom

body: | We remained a strong VMware partner and are more involved in professional services than we were before. Our people work on projects in Broadcom's name and implement VCF. Alongside the project and licensing business we are an official Cloud Service Provider at **Premier** status. We do not host ourselves; we are the point of contact for our CSP partners in the white-label programme. - heading:

Two bundles instead of two hundred products

body: | VMware's portfolio ran to more than 200 products and was complex to match. After the acquisition Broadcom consolidated it into two main offerings: [VMware Cloud Foundation](/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/) for the full private cloud and [vSphere Foundation](/en/solutions/vmware/vsphere-foundation/) for virtualisation without it. For smaller environments there is also [vSphere](/en/solutions/vmware/vsphere/) as vSphere Standard, of which Broadcom announced a new version in September 2026. - heading:

What that is in numbers

body: | Added up, we hold **224 active VMware certifications**. Among them: - 63 Certified Expert - 161 Proven Professional Then there are the Broadcom Knights and the vExperts. The Knights programme is a recognition and training programme for selected technical specialists in Broadcom's partner network; membership is by invitation and renewed yearly. The vExpert award goes to people who are active in the community and pass on what they know, in blog posts, VMUG sessions and elsewhere. Who holds which is on the [VMware Experts](/en/experts/vendor/vmware/) page, computed from the profiles and not maintained here. You will find the most vExperts in Switzerland here, 7 of the 13 (as of September 2026); see the [vExpert directory](https://vexpert.vmware.com/directory/) and, for the Knights, [Broadcom's directory](https://expert.broadcom.com/partners/consulting-services/soultec/knights). Our engineers also pass on what they know, as speakers at community meetings and in posts on technical subjects, collected under [Insights](/en/insights/).status: corpus: 315 services: - {ref: services/cloud, score: 0.60} - {ref: services/orchestration-automation, score: 0.55} - {ref: services/network, score: 0.46} - {ref: services/virtualization-container, score: 0.40} posts: - {ref: posts/vcf-full-stack-ab-oktober-2027-mythos-oder-wahrheit, score: 0.62} - {ref: posts/ms-secure-boot-cert-expiry-2026, score: 0.62} - {ref: posts/how-to-vlr-9-0-4-bugfix, score: 0.62} - {ref: posts/how-to-fix-nsx-to-re-import-esx-into-vcf, score: 0.62} - {ref: posts/how-to-get-online-depot-working-in-vcf-9, score: 0.62} - {ref: posts/how-to-install-vcenter-without-dns, score: 0.64} experts: - {ref: experts/daniel-stadelmann, score: 0.62} - {ref: experts/tobias-waelti, score: 0.58} - {ref: experts/marco-betschart, score: 0.57} neighbours: - {ref: solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation, score: 0.79} - {ref: solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/addon/avi-load-balancing, score: 0.64} - {ref: solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation, score: 0.64} search: /en/search.json

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", "body": "VMware's portfolio ran to more than 200 products and was complex to match. After the\nacquisition Broadcom consolidated it into two main offerings:\n[VMware Cloud Foundation](/en/solutions/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/) for the full private\ncloud and [vSphere Foundation](/en/solutions/vmware/vsphere-foundation/) for virtualisation\nwithout it. For smaller environments there is also [vSphere](/en/solutions/vmware/vsphere/)\nas vSphere Standard, of which Broadcom announced a new version in September 2026." }, { "heading": "

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Two bundles instead of two hundred products

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What that is in numbers

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After Broadcom

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Two bundles instead of two hundred products

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What that is in numbers

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Solution · VMware

VMware

The vendor calls it: VMware by Broadcom

Working with VMware since the turn of the century, and more deeply involved in professional services since the Broadcom acquisition than before it.

VMware Pinnacle Partner

Topics Virtualization 1.42 Cloud 1.92 Network 2.16 Automation 1.81

Vendors VMware 0.98

04Services

06Posts

04Capabilities

315Corpus

photograph wantedA vSphere or VCF console on a real screen at soulTec: a cluster view, a running task, an inventory tree, so the reader should recognise the UI

The partnership

Our team has specialised in VMware technology for years. Some of us have worked with it since the turn of the century, others since VMware turned server virtualization on its head. Over the years that has become a long list of finished projects.

We intend to be the most capable VMware partner in Switzerland. That means our engineers keep up with what is being released, and keep training.

After Broadcom

We remained a strong VMware partner and are more involved in professional services than we were before. Our people work on projects in Broadcom’s name and implement VCF.

Alongside the project and licensing business we are an official Cloud Service Provider at Premier status. We do not host ourselves; we are the point of contact for our CSP partners in the white-label programme.

Two bundles instead of two hundred products

VMware’s portfolio ran to more than 200 products and was complex to match. After the acquisition Broadcom consolidated it into two main offerings: VMware Cloud Foundation for the full private cloud and vSphere Foundation for virtualisation without it. For smaller environments there is also vSphere as vSphere Standard, of which Broadcom announced a new version in September 2026.

What that is in numbers

Added up, we hold 224 active VMware certifications. Among them:

63 Certified Expert
161 Proven Professional

Then there are the Broadcom Knights and the vExperts. The Knights programme is a recognition and training programme for selected technical specialists in Broadcom’s partner network; membership is by invitation and renewed yearly. The vExpert award goes to people who are active in the community and pass on what they know, in blog posts, VMUG sessions and elsewhere.

Who holds which is on the VMware Experts page, computed from the profiles and not maintained here. You will find the most vExperts in Switzerland here, 7 of the 13 (as of September 2026); see the vExpert directory and, for the Knights, Broadcom’s directory. Our engineers also pass on what they know, as speakers at community meetings and in posts on technical subjects, collected under Insights.

Products 23, 12 written

Cloud Foundation VCF

Platform

Compute, storage, network and operations as one product on one lifecycle, instead of four products with four maintenance windows.

CloudVirtualizationAutomation

vSphere Foundation VVF

Platform

The smaller of the two Broadcom bundles: vSphere with operations tooling, without the full private cloud platform on top.

VirtualizationCloud

Cloud Service Provider

Under 3500 cores, a service provider now has to attach to a Premier or Pinnacle CSP. We do not host anything ourselves.

CloudManaged Services

SASE

VMware Secure Access Service Edge

WAN and security as one architecture. Access depends on identity and context rather than on a tunnel into the company network.

NetworkSecurity

vSphere

The hypervisor under everything else: ESXi and vCenter. As vSphere Standard it is also sold on its own, without the larger bundles around it.

Virtualization

Cloud Foundation

VCF Networking

formerly NSX

VCF

Networking and firewalling in software, at the virtual port. Segmentation is set per VM.

NetworkSecurityVirtualization

VCF Automation

formerly Aria Automation

VCF

Self-service and lifecycle for virtual machines, networks and Kubernetes namespaces. A catalogue with approval, an expiry date and teardown.

AutomationDevOpsCloudVirtualization

VCF Fleet Management

VMware VCF Operations fleet management

VCF

Lifecycle across several VCF instances: inventory, version state and updates from one console rather than one at a time.

AutomationMonitoringVirtualization

VCF Operations

formerly Aria Operations

VVFVCF

Capacity, cost and health of the platform in one place. Since VCF 9 it is part of the platform rather than an optional add-on.

MonitoringAutomationVirtualization

VCF Ops for Networks

formerly Aria Operations for Networks

VMware VCF Operations for Networks

VCF

Visibility into the traffic between workloads: who talks to whom, over which path, and what the firewall rule has to say about it.

MonitoringNetworkVirtualization

vSphere Kubernetes Service VKS

formerly vSphere with Tanzu

VVFVCF

Kubernetes inside the vSphere stack. Containers run on the existing platform and are managed with the same tools.

ContainersVirtualization

VCF Storage

formerly vSAN

VVFVCF

The local disks in your ESXi hosts become one shared datastore. Storage managed in the vSphere client instead of in a second console.

StorageVirtualization

Add-ons

Advanced Cyber Compliance Add-on VCF EdgeVCF SecurityVirtualization
Advanced Security Add-on VCF EdgeVCF SecurityNetwork
Application Services Add-on VCF EdgeVCF AutomationContainers
Load Balancing (Avi) Add-on VVFVCF EdgeVCF NetworkVirtualization
Business Operations Add-on VCF EdgeVCF MonitoringAutomation
Data Services Add-on VCF EdgeVCF Data ManagementAutomation
Identity Security Add-on VCF EdgeVCF SecurityModern Workplace
Live Recovery Cloud Add-on VVFVCF EdgeVCF Backup and RecoveryCloud
Network Observability Add-on VCF EdgeVCF MonitoringNetwork
Site Recovery Manager Add-on VVFVCF EdgeVCF Backup and RecoveryVirtualization
vSAN extra capacity Add-on VVFVCF EdgeVCF StorageVirtualization

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Posts about it

VCF full stack from October 2027 – myth or truth?

18 May 2026

A myth that will not go away, and one VMware's competitors are happy to repeat: “from October 2027 a full-stack VCF implementation is mandatory”. It simply is not true.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

Microsoft Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026

7 May 2026

Microsoft is refreshing the Secure Boot certificates originally issued in 2011, so Windows systems keep verifying trusted boot software. The old ones expire in June 2026.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

VLR Appliance 9.0.4 – HBR-Agent can't be installed

12 Dec 2025

You installed VLR Appliance 9.0.4 and it will not install the Host Based Replication Agent for ESX. If you run a vSAN stretched cluster, there is a workaround.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42