VMware® vSphere+™ is a multi-cloud workload platform that brings the benefits of VMware Cloud Services to your on-premises workloads. vSphere+ combines the industry-leading virtualization technology, an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment, and high-value cloud services to transform your existing on-premises deployments into a SaaS-enabled infrastructure.
VMware offers a simple and flexible subscription model for vSphere+. You can leverage your existing capital expense (CapEx) investments and easily shift to an operational expense (OpEx) model with a pay-as-you-grow subscription without needing to refactor workloads.
vSphere+ provides you the flexibility to manage and operate your vSphere infrastructure on-premises while leveraging several cloud capabilities. With vSphere+, you can:
- Visualize your entire vSphere inventory distributed across different geographies from a centralized VMware Cloud (VMC) console.
- Easily monitor global events, alerts, and security posture of your vSphere infrastructure. Quickly triage areas that need your immediate attention.
- View all the VMs in your vSphere environment, identify clusters that have the required capacity, and create VMs as necessary.
- Update your vCenter instances in a single click. With the reduced operational effort and maintenance window, you can plan for updates more frequently and keep your vCenter up-to-date with all new features.
- Standardize and easily cascade desired state vCenter configurations across your vSphere environment. Easily detect and remediate any configuration drifts.
- Transform your existing virtual infrastructure into an enterprise-ready, self-service Kubernetes platform by using VMware Tanzu® Standard Runtime™ Edition and VMware Tanzu® Mission Control™ Essentials included in the vSphere+ subscription.
- Protect VMs and manage the protection status directly from the VMware Cloud Console, if you have the VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery™ subscription.
For vSphere+, the only installation required in your on-premises environment is a VMware Cloud Gateway VM. VMware Cloud Gateway establishes the communication between your on-premises vCenter instances and VMware Cloud, thereby, facilitates monitoring and managing your vSphere infrastructure from the VMware Cloud console.
