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Abstract
With rising costs and complexity, it is becoming increasingly harder to manage IT infrastructure in a data center to address private cloud, hybrid cloud and container workloads. As it changes over time, the infrastructure becomes more fragile and more difficult to know the impacts of making changes.
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a hybrid cloud platform to deploy VMware SDDC for private cloud based on the VMware Validated Design and to integrate with public clouds running VMware SDDC clouds. It provides software defined services for compute, storage, networking, and cloud management to run different workloads. It simplifies installation, upgrade and patch management of SDDC components through lifecycle management either through online or offline. VCF built on ThinkAgile VX hardware and embedded with VMware SDDC provides all the hardware and software needed for building an enterprise infrastructure platform to support virtualized and containerized workloads that is flexible, easy to manage and easy to change for future needs.
This paper describes a VCF solution built on ThinkAgile VX and ThinkAgile FX hardware and embedded with VMware SDDC. It provides all the hardware and software needed for building an enterprise infrastructure platform to support virtualized and containerized workloads that is flexible, easy to manage and easy to change for future needs.
The intended audience of this document is IT professionals, technical architects, sales engineers, and consultants to assist in planning, designing, and implementing SDDC products. General understanding of server virtualization, cloud services and VMware software is expected to get the most out of the paper.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 Business problem and business value
3 Requirements
4 Architectural overview
5 Component model
6 Operational model
7 Deploying SDDC
8 Deployment example
9 Microsoft SQL Server
10 AI/ML Workloads
11 Conclusion
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Change History
Changes in the June 30, 2026 update:
- Updated the complete document with the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 components
- Section 6.0 Updated ThinkAgile VX V4 and FX systems with Intel Xeon 6 Processors
- Section 6.4 Added Lenovo XClarity One
- Section 5.3 Added vSAN Storage Cluster
- Section 5.13 Updated HyTrust solutions with Entrust
- Updated deployment model with disaggregated storage architecture
- Added Section 5.9.2 VCF Operations Workload Mobility
- Section 9 - Updated with SQL 2025 results on Intel Xeon 6 and design recommendations.
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Changes in the December 13, 2024 update:
- Added Section 6.1.2 ThinkAgile VX Servers with NVIDIA Bluefield-2 DPUs
- Updated the document with vCF 5.2 and vSphere 8.0 U3
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