Release NotesLearn about what's new in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 release, the software components and versions included in the Bill of Materials (BOM), product support notes, and known issues.View AllOverviewUnderstand the architecture and capabilities of VCF across the stages in the private cloud lifecycle.View AllDesignAs a cloud architect or VI administrator, understand the supported design options for VCF, and review a set of decision points, justifications, implications, and considerations for designing each component.View AllPlanning and PreparationAs a VI administrator, create an environment specification about the software, tools, and external services that are required to build a VCF private cloud.View AllDeployment, Convergence, and UpgradeGet to VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware vSphere Foundation 9. Use VCF Installer and VCF Operations for automated deployment workflows and manually deploy the final components to complete your platform.View AllLicensingUse a VCF Operations instance and the VCF Business Services console as a VI administrator to manage and assign licenses.View AllBuilding Cloud InfrastructureUse VCF Operations and the vSphere Client as a VI administrator to add and configure infrastructure for customer workloads in the VCF private cloud.View All vSphere Use vSphere as a VI administrator to virtualize physical infrastructure into managed CPU, storage, and networking resources.View All vSAN Use vSAN as a VI administrator or storage administrator to enhance storage performance by aggregating local storage into a single shared pool across all hosts in a vSAN cluster.View All NSX Use NSX as a network administrator for networking and automation for virtual machines, containers, or bare metal applications.View AllLifecycle ManagementUse VCF Operations as a VI administrator to manage the lifecycle of the management and SDDC components in VCF, including downloading binaries and updating VCF fleet and VCF Instances.View AllFleet ManagementUse VCF Operations as a VI administrator to manage identity and access, certificates, passwords, tags, configuration profiles, and availability of the VCF fleet.View AllInfrastructure OperationsUse VCF Operations as a VI administrator to perform operations across compute, storage, and network. These operational capabilities include performance optimization, visibility and observability of infrastructure and operations, global configuration management, monitoring, troubleshooting, log analytics, end-to-end network monitoring, energy efficiency monitoring, and other.View AllWorkload Monitoring and ObservabilityUse VCF Operations as a VI administrator to monitor operating systems and applications using managed and open-source Telegraf. Discover services and applications using the Service Discovery adapter.View AllCost and Capacity ManagementUse VCF Operations as a VI administrator to manage cost and capacity for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Capacity management includes capacity forecasting, workload optimization, and cost transparency. Showback, chargeback, and budgeting tools helps track and predict expenses.View AllWorkload MobilityUse VCF Operations as a VI administrator to migrate workloads efficiently and securely within and across data centers.View AllSecurity and ComplianceUse VCF Operations as a VI administrator to evaluate the security stance of your organization across the VCF fleet. Compliance management continuously monitors your infrastructure against industry standards and custom policies. It detects violations, highlights risk areas, and provides actionable remediation recommendationsView All vSphere Supervisor PlatformActivate and manage vSphere Supervisor as a VI administrator to provide a platform for running Kubernetes workloads in vSphere.View AllProvider ManagementUse the VCF Automation Provider Management portal as an IT administrator (or provider administrator) to set up organizations for Lines of Businesses (LOBs) and allocate resources.View AllOrganization ManagementUse VCF Automation as a cloud administrator (or organization administrator) to set up projects for application teams, allocate resources, and apply governance.View AllWorkload OrchestrationUse VCF Automation or VCF Operations orchestrator to configure workload orchestration.View AllBuilding Cloud ApplicationsUse VCF Automation to provision VMs, Kubernetes workloads and other Cloud Services by using self-service UI, API, and CLI.View AllAdministration SDKs, APIs, and CLIUse the VCF SDK and VCF APIs, and VCF PowerCLI as a developer to automate infrastructure deployment and management programmatically for improving productivity and minimize manual errors.View AllAdvanced ServicesYou can extend your platform with add-on functionality from advanced services. The following advanced services are available for VCF and vSphere Foundation.View AllDocumentation Legal NoticeInformation about the documentation legal notice.View All, Learn about what's new in the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 release, the software components and versions included in the Bill of Materials (BOM), resolved issues, and known issues., As of June 17th 2025, VMware by Broadcom has released VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0. Downloads on the Broadcom Support portal are located in a separate VCF and VVF download page rather than the legacy component pages (e.g. vSphere)..