Updated: Oct 2024

VMware Cloud Foundation

and VMware vSphere
Foundation:
Feature Comparison & Upgrade Paths
VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation: Feature Comparison & Upgrade Paths

As part of the VMware integration into Broadcom, we have taken several core steps to
drive more value for the VMware portfolio.

• First, the VMware portfolio has been dramatically simplified to 2 core offerings:
VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation, plus a set of Advanced,
Add-on Services as detailed in this blog.
• Second, the portfolio has shifted completely from perpetual to a subscription model,
using compute cores as the fundamental metric for scaling VMware environments.
• Finally, the overall pricing has been reduced up to 50% compared to previous
subscription offers, reducing customers' overall TCO when deploying this infrastructure.

Portfolio Simplification
VMware by Broadcom has two primary offerings:
1. VMware Cloud Foundation – the flagship enterprise-class private cloud platform for
customers to run their business-critical and modern applications – in a secure,
resilient, and cost-efficient manner.
• VMware Cloud Foundation is a full-stack Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
platform that delivers software-defined compute, storage, networking, security,
and management.
• Integrated self-service infrastructure platform to deploy VMs/containers for
developer agility.
• Hardened platform offering built-in resilience, scaling, and clustering for non-stop
operations.
• Provides cloud agility to scale infrastructure without scaling staff, delivering cloud
consumption on-premises.
• Provides automation and orchestration to simplify Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 tasks.
• Available as a single SKU to simplify full stack deployment.

2. VMware vSphere Foundation – a simplified, enterprise-grade workload platform for

our mid-sized to smaller customers.
• VMware vSphere Foundation solution integrates vSphere with our intelligent
operations management to provide the best performance, availability, and
efficiency with greater visibility and insights.
• vSphere Foundation can be upgraded to a Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
solution with an optional software-defined storage (vSAN) add-on.

Figure 1: shows VMware by Broadcom simplified portfolio

Note: Customers can purchase additional storage capacity with VMware Cloud
Foundation or vSphere Foundation as a vSAN add-on.

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Feature Comparison: VMware vSphere Foundation vs. VMware Cloud Foundation

vSphere VMware Cloud
Features Previous Products Foundation Foundation
Compute

Distributed Resource Scheduler, Distributed Switch vSphere Enterprise Plus ● ●

Cross-VC vMotion, Long Distance vMotion, Direct

vSphere Enterprise Plus ● ●
Path vMotion, Storage vMotion
High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Data Protection, Trust
Authority vSphere Enterprise Plus ● ●

Kubernetes Runtime, Automated Multicluster Operations Tanzu Kubernetes Grid ● ●

vCenter: Backup and Restore, Linked Mode, HA vCenter Standard ● ●

Storage

Data-at-rest and Data-In-Transit Encryption vSAN Enterprise 100 GiB / Core 1TiB / Core

Stretched Cluster with Local Failure Protection vSAN Enterprise 100 GiB / Core 1TiB / Core

Petabyte Scale, Disaggregated Storage for vSphere vSAN Enterprise 100 GiB / Core 1TiB / Core

Dedup & Compression vSAN Enterprise 100 GiB / Core 1TiB / Core

Networking

Networking: Distributed Switching and Routing NSX Enterprise Plus ●

Large Scale Workload Migration HCX Enterprise ●

Network Ops: Flow Analysis, App Discovery, M-Seg Aria Operations

Planning, Network Assurance and Verification for Networks ●

Management
Operations: Performance Optimization, Capacity
Management, Compliance, Monitoring and Aria Operations ● ●
Troubleshooting, Log Analytics
Automation: Automated Lifecycle Management, App/Infra
Provisioning, Governance Aria Automation ●

VMware and Third-Party Database, Middleware and

Application management packs Aria Operations Enterprise ●

Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Applications with Open-

Source Telegraf
Aria Operations Enterprise ●

Out-of-the-box Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Curated

Applications with Telegraf agent Aria Operations Enterprise ●

Native Public Cloud Monitoring Aria Operations Enterprise ●

TVS management packs Aria Ops for Integrations ●Excludes DB & ●

apps

Data Services Manager (DSM) Data Services Manager ●

SDDC Manager: Workload Domain Management, Lifecycle

Management, Certificate Management SDDC Manager ●

Support

Broadcom Essential Support – Regional Coverage, 24x7

Support ● ●

Activation/ Upgrade Support for VCF Purchased Separately

Jumpstart Workshops for VCF (new purchases of VCF ACV

> $500k except for US Pub Sector) ●

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Detailed Feature Comparison: vSphere Standard vs. VMware vSphere Foundation vs.
VMware Cloud Foundation

• VMware vSphere Foundation - includes VMware vSphere, vCenter Standard, vSAN,

vSphere Kubernetes Service, VCF Operations, VCF Operations for logs.

• VMware Cloud Foundation - includes VMware vSphere, vCenter Standard, vSphere

Kubernetes Service, vSAN, NSX, VCF Operations, VCF Operations for Networks, VCF
Operation for Logs, VCF Automation, SDDC Manager, HCX, and Data Services Manager.

• VMware Cloud Foundation Edge - VMware Cloud Foundation Edge is an optimized

configuration of VMware Cloud Foundation tailored for edge use cases.

Solution License - VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation now include
a solution license key that enables access to the different components from a single key.
Note – The below comparison applies to vSphere 8.0 U3 P04 and VCF 5.2.1
vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud
Features Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Compute
vCenter Edition vCenter Standard vCenter Standard vCenter Standard vCenter Standard

vCenter Lifecycle Management Yes Yes Yes Yes

Service

vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) No Yes Yes Yes

VM Service No Yes Yes Yes

Storage Service No Yes* Yes Yes

Network Service No Yes* Yes Yes

Container Registry Service No Yes Yes Yes

VM Registry Service No Yes Yes Yes

Network Load Balancing No Yes* Yes Yes

Workload Availability Zones No Yes Yes Yes

Simplified VKS cluster lifecycle

Management No Yes Yes Yes

VKS cluster package management No Yes Yes Yes

Customizable base OS Images No Yes Yes Yes

vSphere Lifecycle Manager Yes Yes Yes Yes

vCenter Server Profiles Yes Yes Yes Yes

vCenter Update Planner Yes Yes Yes Yes

Content Library Yes Yes Yes Yes

vSphere Configuration Profiles No Yes Yes Yes

Host Profiles No Yes No** No**

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Compute
Auto Deploy No Yes No** No**

Virtual Volumes (vVols) Yes Yes Yes Yes

Green Metrics Yes Yes Yes Yes

Identity Federation Yes Yes Yes Yes

Hardware TPM 2.0 Support Yes Yes Yes Yes

Virtual TPM 2.0 Yes Yes Yes Yes

FIPS 140-2, 140-3, and Common Yes Yes Yes Yes

Criteria Certification

TLS 1.2 Yes Yes Yes Yes

TLS 1.3 Yes*** Yes*** Yes*** Yes***

Virtual Machine Encryption No Yes Yes Yes

Standard Key Provider (External KMS) Yes Yes Yes Yes

Native Key Provider Yes Yes Yes Yes

Per-VM Enhanced vMotion Yes Yes Yes Yes

Compatibility (EVC)

Instant Clone No Yes Yes Yes

VMware vShield Endpoint Yes Yes Yes Yes

Compatible NVIDIA AI Ready ENT No No Yes Yes

platform

Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) No Yes Yes Yes

Storage DRS No Yes Yes Yes

Distributed Power Management

(DPM) No Yes Yes Yes

Storage Policy-Based Management Yes Yes Yes Yes

I/O Controls (network & storage) No Yes Yes Yes

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) No Yes Yes Yes

vSphere persistent memory/memory

tiering No Yes Yes Yes

NVIDIA GRID vGPU No Yes Yes Yes

Accelerated Graphics for VMs No Yes Yes Yes

Dynamic DirectPath IO Yes Yes Yes Yes

Vendor Device Group No Yes Yes Yes

vMotion Yes Yes Yes Yes

Cross-vCenter vMotion Yes Yes Yes Yes

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Compute
vCenter Hybrid Linked Mode Yes Yes Yes Yes

vSMP Yes Yes Yes Yes

High Availability (HA) Yes Yes Yes Yes

Proactive HA No Yes Yes Yes

Storage vMotion Yes Yes Yes Yes

Fault Tolerance Yes

Yes Yes Yes
(only 2 vCPU)

vSphere Replication Yes Yes Yes Yes

Support for 4k Native Storage Yes Yes Yes Yes

vSphere Quick Boot Yes Yes Yes Yes

vCenter File-Based Backup and Yes Yes Yes Yes

Restore

vCenter Server Appliance Migration Yes Yes Yes Yes

Cross vCenter Mixed Version

Provisioning Yes Yes Yes Yes

Hot and Cold Migration to the Cloud Yes Yes Yes Yes

Policy-based Governance No Yes Yes Yes

Kubernetes Automation No Yes Yes Yes

Workload Lifecycle Management No Yes Yes Yes

vSphere Orchestration & Extensibility Yes Yes Yes Yes

Storage
vSAN Express Storage Architecture No Yes Yes Yes
(ESA)

vSAN Original Storage Architecture

(OSA) No Yes Yes Yes

All-Flash Hardware No Yes Yes Yes

Data Compression No Yes Yes Yes

Basic Compression and Deduplication No Yes (OSA Only) Yes (OSA Only) Yes (OSA Only)

Advanced Storage and Network

Layer Compression No Yes (ESA Only) Yes (ESA Only) Yes (ESA Only)

Data at-Rest Encryption No Yes Yes Yes

Data in-Transit Encryption No Yes Yes** Yes**

Storage Policy-Based Management Yes Yes Yes Yes

Software Checksum No Yes Yes Yes

vSAN over RDMA No Yes No No

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Storage
Erasure Coding (RAID-5/6) No Yes Yes Yes

vSAN Max No Yes No** No**

Remote Datastores No Yes Yes Yes

Stretched Cluster No Yes Yes (OSA Only) Yes (OSA Only)

2-Node Cluster No Yes No No

File Services No Yes Yes (OSA Only) Yes (OSA Only)

iSCSI Target Service No Yes No No

Cloud Native Storage (CNS) Control

Plane No Yes Yes Yes

vSphere Container Storage Interface No Yes Yes Yes

(CSI) Driver

Rack Awareness (Fault Domains) No Yes No No

vSAN Data Persistence Platform No Yes Yes Yes

External Storage

Yes (Principal, Yes (Principal,

VMFS - Fibre Channel Yes Yes Supplemental) Supplemental)

VMFS – iSCSI Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) Yes (Supplemental)

VMFS - NVMe/FC Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) Yes (Supplemental)

VMFS - NVMe/TCP Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) Yes (Supplemental)

Yes
VMFS - NVMe/RDMA Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) (Supplemental)

NFS - v3 Yes Yes Yes (Principal, Yes (Principal,

Supplemental) Supplemental)

NFS - v4.1 Yes Yes Supplemental Supplemental

vVols - Fibre Channel Yes Yes Yes (Principal, Yes (Principal,

Supplemental) Supplemental)

Yes (Principal, Yes (Principal,

vVols – iSCSI Yes Yes Supplemental) Supplemental)

vVols - NVMe/FC Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) Yes

(Supplemental)

Yes
vVols - NVMe/TCP Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) (Supplemental)

vVols - NVMe/RDMA Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) Yes

(Supplemental)

Yes
vVols - NFS v3 Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) (Supplemental)

vVols - NFS 4.1 Yes Yes Yes (Supplemental) Yes

(Supplemental)

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

External Storage
Storage I/O QoS Controls (SIOC) No Yes Yes Yes

Storage Array Integration (VAAI) for

Block Storage Yes Yes Yes Yes

Storage Array Integration (VAAI) for Yes Yes Yes Yes

NFS Storage

Workload (VMDK) Clustering No Yes Yes Yes

Auto config with NFS Yes Yes Yes Yes

Auto config with VMFS No No No No

3rd party storage plugins Yes Yes Yes Yes

Host commissioning and cluster

management Yes Yes Yes Yes

Networking
vSphere Distributed Switch No Yes Yes Yes

Link Aggregation Control Protocol

(LACP) No Yes Yes** Yes**

Load-Based Teaming No Yes Yes Yes

Network I/O QoS Control (NIOC) No Yes Yes Yes

Private VLAN No Yes Yes Yes

MAC Learning No Yes Yes Yes

BPDU Guard No Yes Yes Yes

Guest VLAN Tagging No Yes Yes Yes

VLAN Backed Networking Yes Yes Yes Yes

Virtual Networking No No Yes Yes

Spoofguard No No Yes Yes

L2 Multicast No Yes Yes Yes

L3 Multicast No No Yes Yes

Enhanced Datapath No Yes Yes Yes

Enhanced Datapath for DPUs No Yes Yes Yes

IPv4 and IPv6 Routing No No Yes Yes

Routing (OSPFv2 / BGP / BFD) No No Yes Yes

VRF No No Yes Yes

EVPN No No Yes Yes

NAT No No Yes Yes

L2 and L3 VPN No No Yes Yes

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Networking
Quality of Service (QoS) No Yes (NIOC) Yes (NSX) Yes (NSX)

Edge Bridge for Networking No No Yes Yes

DNS, DHCP and IPAM No No Yes Yes

Container Networking with Antrea No Yes Yes Yes

Policy, Tagging, and Grouping No No Yes Yes

Multi-Tenancy with Projects No No Yes Yes

Virtual Private Cloud (VPCs) No No Yes Yes

Manager / Controller Clustering No No Yes Yes

Federation No No Yes Yes

Edge in VM and Bare-Metal Form

Factor for Networking No No Yes Yes

Automated and Manual Manager and No No Yes Yes

Edge Deployment

Automated Host Prep No No Yes Yes

Port Mirroring No Yes Yes Yes

Netflow/IPFIX No Yes Yes Yes

Traceflow No No Yes Yes

Live Traffic Analysis No No Yes Yes

Packet Capture No Yes Yes Yes

SNMP v1/v2/v3 with Traps No Yes Yes Yes

Upgrade Coordinator No No Yes Yes

Cloud Management

VCF Automation
IaaS Consumption Surface No No Yes Yes

Policy-based Governance No No Yes Yes

Infrastructure as Code No No Yes Yes

Kubernetes Automation No No Yes Yes

Network Automation No No Yes Yes

Private AI Automation No No Yes Yes

SDDC Infrastructure Consumption No No Yes Yes

Workload Lifecycle Management No No Yes Yes

VCF Automation Orchestration &

Extensibility No No Yes Yes

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Cloud Management

VCF Operations
Global inventory for VMware Cloud No Yes Yes Yes
Foundation

Single sign-on (vCenter, VCF

Operations, VCF Operations for Logs, No Yes Yes Yes
VCF Operations Orchestrator)

GPU summary with OOTB alerts and No Yes Yes Yes

dashboards for Private AI Operations

Centralized certificate and license

visibility across the VCF stack No Yes Yes Yes

Audit events across vCenter, No Yes Yes Yes

vSphere, vSAN, and NSX

Configuration drift detection for

vCenter No Yes Yes Yes

Diagnostics for VMware Cloud

Foundation to show component No Yes Yes Yes
health status

vSAN overview dashboards with

support for vSAN Max No Yes Yes Yes

Visualization (OOTB; Custom):

Dashboards, Views, Reports, Heat
Map, Performance Charts, Super No Yes Yes Yes
Metrics, Metric Correlation,
Relationship Mapping

Performance Monitoring and

Analytics No Yes Yes Yes

Compliance Management, including

regulatory compliance (CSA, DISA,
FISMA, ISO, CIS, PCI, HIPAA), custom No Yes Yes Yes
compliance templates, vSphere
hardening

Real-Time predictive capacity

management, including trending
(Workload What-If analysis), right- No Yes Yes Yes
sizing, workload optimization (manual
and automated)

Troubleshooting with guided No Yes Yes Yes

remediation

VCF Automation Integration No No Yes Yes

Cost Management and Optimization

with Fine-Grained Cost Analytics No Yes Yes Yes
(Service and Data Center costs,
Reclamation, Planning)

Configuration Management for

custom VM profiles No Yes Yes Yes

VMware Site Recovery ManagerTM

and vSphere ReplicationTM No Yes Yes Yes
Management Packs

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Cloud Management

VCF Operations
Service Discovery and Application No Yes Yes Yes
Dependency Mapping

Out-of-the-Box Discovery, Monitoring

and Troubleshooting for Packaged No No Yes Yes
Applications

Extensibility via VMW & 3rd-Party

App & Management Packs (e.g., DBs, No Yes Yes Yes
middleware, app management)

Extensibility via VMW & 3rd-Party

App & Public Cloud Management
Packs (e.g., DBs, middleware, app No No Yes Yes
management, public cloud)

Logs Dashboards (OOTB, custom) No Yes Yes Yes

Logs Interactive analytics No Yes Yes Yes

Logs vSphere integration

(Collect from VMware No Yes Yes Yes
vCenter®, ESX)

Logs for Kubernetes

collection querying No Yes Yes Yes
and analytics

Logs Alerting No Yes Yes Yes

Logs Machine learning/

analytics No Yes Yes Yes

Logs Active Directory No Yes Yes Yes

integration

Logs Role-based
access control No Yes Yes Yes

Logs Query API No Yes Yes Yes

Logs Scheduled No Yes Yes Yes

dashboard reports

Logs Partitioning No Yes Yes Yes

Logs Content Pack support No Yes Yes Yes

vSphere, VKS, HCX, SDDC Manager

VCF Network Operations

VMware Cloud Foundation Network
Visibility and Troubleshooting for No No Yes Yes
vSphere, vCenter, NSX, HCX

Data Center Assessment Dashboard No No Yes Yes

Network Assessment and

Optimization Report No No Yes Yes

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Cloud Management

VCF Network Operations

vCenter plug-in with views of
networking metrics and analytics (on No No Yes Yes
the vCenter dashboard)

Deployment backup and restore for

replicating the setup configuration No No Yes Yes

Custom dashboards No No Yes Yes

Flow IPv6 traffic from VMware

vCenter and NSX No No Yes Yes

NSX Load Balancer integration No No Yes Yes

NSX Advanced Load Balancer

integration (AVI Separate purchase No No Yes Yes
required)

NSX federation visibility No No Yes Yes

VMware HCX troubleshooting and

monitoring, including the VM-to-VM No No Yes Yes
path

VMware HCX network monitoring,

visibility, L2 extension in VMware No No Yes Yes
Cloud, and VM-to-VM overlay path

Network Visibility for vSphere

Kubernetes Service Integrated Edition No No Yes Yes
Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift

Visibility of NSX Container Plug-in for No No Yes Yes

OpenShift 4.x (Kubernetes cluster)

Network Assessment planning for

VMware Cloud Foundation and NSX No No Yes Yes

Pre-Deployment Assessment No No Yes Yes

Dashboards for network traffic

Trial Evaluation Mode with VMware

Cloud Foundation No No Yes Yes

Security & Network Capacity Planning No No Yes Yes

Highlight critical VMs via the Crown

Jewels reachability and visibility No No Yes Yes
analysis for security posture

VMware Cloud Foundation Network

Operations platform is compliant and
uses Federal Information Processing No No Yes Yes
Standards (FIPS 140-2) validated
cryptographic modules

NSX PCI compliance dashboard No No Yes Yes

NSX Firewall network segmentation No No Yes Yes

planning and operations (NSX IPFIX)

App-centric Flow-Based Network

Troubleshooting and Analytics No No Yes Yes

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Cloud Management

VCF Network Operations

Application discovery (names, tags, No No Yes Yes
RegEx)

Flow-Based Application Discovery No No Yes Yes

DNS mapping (import bind file) No No Yes Yes

Application dashboard (alerts, intent

failures, security issues, and guided No No Yes Yes
network troubleshooting incidents)

Visibility of Incomplete TCP sessions No No Yes Yes

Flow/threshold analytics and

reporting No No Yes Yes

Path Visibility for Overlay Fabric and No No Yes Yes

Underlay

NSX visibility over network fabric No No Yes Yes

Virtual flows (VDS IPFIX, VM to VM, No No Yes Yes

VM to Physical)

Physical flows (NetFlow v7 and v9,

and sFlow) No No Yes Yes

Network visibility of logical routing No No Yes Yes

and switching

Day 2 Network Operations with

Assurance and Verification No No Yes Yes

Guided network troubleshooting No No Yes Yes

Streaming databus to export

information learned from the platform No No Yes Yes

Network Map topology visualization No No Yes Yes

Traffic path and redundant path

analysis No No Yes Yes

NSX Day 2 ops (topology view, health

checklist, edge load balance No No Yes Yes
dashboard)

Public APIs to view and access

network metrics No No Yes Yes

Usability large-screen support No No Yes Yes

VM and IP address network analysis No No Yes Yes

VMware Cloud on AWS network

visibility connected to VMware Cloud No No Yes Yes
Foundation

VMware Cloud on AWS Direct

Connect network visibility connected No No Yes Yes
to VMware Cloud Foundation

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Features vSphere vSphere VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Standard Foundation Foundation Edge Foundation

Cloud Management

VCF Network Operations

VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts
network visibility connected to No No Yes Yes
VMware Cloud Foundation

Azure VMware Solution network

visibility connected to VMware Cloud No No Yes Yes
Foundation

Azure flow collection for security

groups for network visibility No No Yes Yes
connected to VMware Cloud
Foundation

Google Cloud VMware Engine

network visibility connected to No No Yes Yes
VMware Cloud Foundation

Oracle Cloud VMware Solution

network visibility connected to No No Yes Yes
VMware Cloud Foundation

End-to-End Network Visibility

Adjacent to VMware Cloud No No Yes Yes
Foundation

Visibility across third-party switches, No No Yes Yes

routers, firewalls and load balancers

Network device auto discovery No No Yes Yes

ServiceNow integration for app No No Yes Yes

discovery, issue resolution email

Network visibility of Cisco Catalyst

9000 network map, VM-to-VM path, No No Yes Yes
intent

Cisco Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI) with network No No Yes Yes
assurance and verification support

Cisco BGP-EVPN underlay/overlay

visibility No No Yes Yes

Arista BGP-EVPN underlay/overlay No No Yes Yes

visibility

Juniper Ethernet VPN VM-to-VM path No No Yes Yes

DNS resolution with Infoblox No No Yes Yes

(*) - Denotes features that are limited to the support of VM Service and VKS.
(**) - Denotes features that are compatible with VCF, but not integrated with SDDC
manager.
(***) - For more information about the use of TLS 1.3 with FIPS 140-3 requirements consult
the product documentation.

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The below graphics show upgrade paths from previous products to new offerings.

Compute Paths

Previous Products Recommended Solution

vSphere Enterprise Plus

vSphere Enterprise
vSphere Foundation
vSphere for Desktop

vSphere Scale-Out

vSphere Standard vSphere Standard

vSphere Essentials Plus

vSphere Essentials vSphere Essentials Plus

vSphere Hypervisor

Storage Paths

Previous Products Recommended Solution

vSphere vSAN

NSX Aria

vSphere vSAN
VMware Cloud Foundation
Aria

vSphere vSAN

NSX

vSphere Foundation
vSphere vSAN
&
vSAN Add-on

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Networking/ Security Paths

Previous Products Recommended Solution

vSphere vSAN

NSX Aria

vSphere

NSX Aria VMware Cloud Foundation

&
vSphere vSAN Firewall
NSX

vSphere

NSX

Management Path

Previous Products Recommended Solution

vSphere

Aria Suite Enterprise or

vRCU Enterprise

VMware Cloud Foundation

vSphere

vROPs + vRA or Aria Suite Advanced

or vRCU Advanced

vSphere
vSphere Foundation
vROPs or Aria Suite Standard or
vRCU Standard

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vCloud Suite Paths

Previous Products Recommended Solution

vCloud Suite Enterprise

Aria Suite Enterprise

vSphere Enterprise Plus

VMware Cloud Foundation

vCloud Suite Advanced

Aria Suite Advanced

vSphere Enterprise Plus

vCloud Suite Standard

Aria Suite Standard

vSphere Foundation

vSphere Enterprise Plus

VCF Paths

Previous Products Recommended Solution

VCF Enterprise

VCF Advanced VMware Cloud Foundation

VCF Standard &

Firewall
VCF Starter

For additional details, contact your VMware account team and sales representative.

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