06/13/2023 | News release | Distributed by Public on 06/13/2023 07:49
It is our pleasure to announce that VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 is now available for our Cloud Services Providers. This announcement complements the VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 product launch earlier this month, providing access to all of the features and capabilities available in that release to our Cloud Services Provider community.
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 continues to deliver enterprise-level enhancements that customers require, including additional scalability, performance, security, and manageability features for their virtual and cloud-native application workloads. This release captures all of the latest releases available, including:
Our Cloud Services Providers can now take advantage of several important capabilities with this release.
Support for the Standard Architecture Model
With VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0, Cloud Services Providers are now able to take advantage of the standard architecture model, where management workloads run on a dedicated management domain and tenant workloads are deployed in separate virtual infrastructure (VI) workload domains. This model is recommended because it separates the partner management workloads from its customer tenant workloads, and provides better scale and flexibility as the environment grows. With a separate vCenter Server in each domain, partners can achieve better security, scalability, licensing, and lifecycle management.
Prior to this release, Cloud Services Providers could only provision workloads with the consolidated architecture model, where management and workloads were shared in the management domain. This was previously discussed in last year's blog and vmLIVE.
Support for Isolated SSO Workload Domains
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 includes a new capability called Isolated SSO Workload Domains. Cloud Services Provider administrators now have the option to configure new workload domains using a separate Single Sign On (SSO) instance. This scenario is useful for Cloud Services Providers that need workload isolation or want to allocate workload domains to different tenants with their own SSO domains. Isolated SSO domains are each configured with their own NSX instance. The added benefit is that configuring workload domains as an isolated workload domain also allows the option to configure a separate identity provider (Active Directory or LDAP).
Expanded AI/ML Workload Support
VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 supports the latest GPU virtualization innovations. With the support of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise Suite, NVIDIA Ampere A100 and A30 GPUs can now be configured with VMware Cloud Foundation to support AI/ML workloads. VMware, in partnership with NVIDIA, has integrated the latest virtual GPU (vGPU) capabilities enabled by vSphere, into VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0. Cloud Services Providers can now extend their software-defined private or sovereign cloud platforms to support a flexible and easily scalable AI-ready infrastructure.
Scalability, Performance, and Manageability Updates
There are several scalability, performance, and manageability improvements with VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0. While you can read about them in the product blogs for each of the VCF core products, here is a quick summary of the major enhancements which Cloud Services Providers will find useful:
Additional Resources
Here are some resources available to further detail VMware Cloud Foundation 5.0 capabilities: