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

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What it is for

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What changed

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Solution · VMware

Cloud Foundation VCF

The vendor calls it: VMware Cloud Foundation

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

VMware Pinnacle Partner

Topics Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42 Automation 1.81

Vendors VMware 0.98

04Services

06Posts

03Capabilities

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

What it is

VMware Cloud Foundation, usually shortened to VCF, bundles vSphere, vSAN, NSX and the operations tooling into a single product. SDDC Manager knows the dependencies between those components and applies updates in an order that has been tested.

Run the pieces separately and you maintain a compatibility matrix by hand, and every update becomes its own project.

What it is for

Private cloud in your own datacentre, built from standard blocks with an API in front of them. VCF is aimed at estates large enough that operational effort and standardisation outweigh the price of any single licence.

What changed

Since Broadcom acquired VMware, VCF is the central offering and licensing is a per-core subscription. Moving from older perpetual licences changes the cost. That belongs in the planning before the technical design does.

What we do with it

Draft, unreviewed

Draft, not yet reviewed. Most of our VCF work is a migration out of a vSphere estate that has grown over time. The effort is in NSX, and in checking which old firewall rules are still needed.

This paragraph is a draft and nobody at soulTec has confirmed it yet. Everything above it describes the product and is checkable against the vendor.

Products 18, 7 written

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

A name without a link is real but not written yet. It comes from soultec.ch or from the vendor’s own product material.

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

Fix NSX to Re-Import ESX into VCF

11 Oct 2025

If you stumble upon this blog chances are you are working on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

Get Online Depot working in VCF 9

2 Sep 2025

In VMware Cloud Foundation 9 we can configure a Online Depot to get access to the Binaries for the Management as well as the Instance Components.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

DSM 9.0 – MS SQL as a Service

26 Jun 2025

VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 brought VMware Data Services Manager (DSM) 9.0 with it. Alongside many improvements, the largest new feature is support for Microsoft SQL Server (tech preview).

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42