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IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions
Modernize VMware workloads with the most secure, seamless and flexible cloud
IBM Cloud for VMware solutions enables you to transform and optimize your VMware workloads with the most secure and flexible hybrid cloud – allowing you to leverage your existing investments for a consistent VMware experience, with the same level of access and control. It delivers the ultimate flexibility with thousands of customizable and management options at the best lifetime cost.
Leverage IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions to deploy new or existing workloads.
A 2024 Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions study, commissioned by IBM, modeled a composite client organization and calculated it could gain USD 2.01 for every USD 1 spent on IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions over three years.
The same model showed that by freeing up resources that manage on-premises hardware, the client organization could save USD 1.2 million over three years.
A completely trusted fullstack bundle to support today's agile workloads. Accelerate your hybrid cloud transformation with IBM Cloud for VMware Cloud Foundation.
Exciting financial incentives for VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud now extended till Dec 31, 2025.*
- Migrate your VMware workloads to VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud with migration acceleration credits up to 20% of total contract value
- Get up to 50% off on a 1- or 3- year term contract for VCFaaS
Use cases
Easily extend your on-premises data center to address capacity expansion, on-demand app scaling, and accelerating cloud migrations of vSphere workloads to IBM Cloud—without re-architecting applications while reducing migration complexity.
IBM Cloud’s Cyber Recovery solution provides a simplified business continuity plan with cost-effective disaster recovery (DR), Cloud backup, and a robust ransomware recovery solution to protect and restore your data across your IT environment.
Modernize your VMware workloads with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes containers. Improve business outcomes with advanced technologies such as AI and blockchain. Integrate existing VMware-based applications into a hybrid cloud strategy.
Deployment options
IBM Cloud for VCF-as-a-Service gives you the compute flexibility and scale to meet your workload demands with IBM handling the configuration, hosting, operations, and lifecycle management of your single-tenant or multi-tenant VMware environment.
Compare the full suite of our deployment options.
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Frequently asked questions
* Contact your IBM representative to save up to 50% on VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service with a 1 or 3 year contract, or you can avail migration credit up to 20% of eligible spend amount for your migration of VMware workloads to IBM Cloud.
Migration credits are only available for new clients to VMware solutions on IBM Cloud. This migration credit offer is valid now until Dec 31, 2025.
Migration credits are available to IBM Cloud Paygo, Subscription, and Enterprise saving plan account types.
On-demand consumption for IBM Cloud for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) as a Service, inclusive of built-in VCF licenses, with a single virtual machine including 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB vSAN storage, and an Efficiency Network Edge server is priced at USD 123.32/month across all IBM Cloud Single and Multizone Regions, excluding Dallas, TX IBM Cloud Data Centers, which costs USD 127.00/month.
IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions Shared uses VMware Cloud Director to enable you to extend your VMs to the cloud with ultimate capacity and scalability, while paying only for what is consumed. With IBM managing the infrastructure up to the hypervisor, you don’t need to worry about providing updates and patching, and instead can focus on application innovation.
If you purchase a monthly or annual subscription of IBM SPSS Statistics, your payment method will be automatically charged at the beginning of each billing period (either yearly or monthly). First-time IBM Marketplace customers can pay with Visa, Mastercard or American Express. Returning customers can pay with a credit card, purchase order or invoice.
This solution provides single-tenant infrastructure with higher levels of isolation for enhanced security and compliance readiness. IBM Cloud VMware Solutions Dedicated is for organizations looking to retain control of managing updates and patching since you'll have full control of the hypervisor.
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated is available in North America West (San Jose); North America South (Dallas and Queretaro); North America East (Montreal, Toronto, and Washington DC); South America (Sao Paulo); Europe (Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, Milan, Oslo, and Paris); and Asia Pacific (Chennai, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore, Seoul, and Tokyo).
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared is available in North America South (Dallas).
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Dedicated is HIPAA-ready, GDPR-ready, and Privacy-Shield-Certified. IC4V Dedicated has also been independently verified and complies with SOC1 Type 2, SOC2 Type 2, SOC3 as well as ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018.
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions Shared is GDPR-ready and Privacy-Shield-Certified. IC4V Shared has also been independently verified and complies with ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018.
IBM Cloud is the most secure, enterprise-grade cloud at a global scale for VMware workloads.
- Get the same level of visibility, control, and operational consistency as on-premises with hypervisor root-level access.
- Provide right-size infrastructure and performance with 100+ bare metal configs for VMware while reducing TCO with no-cost data transfer within the private network.
- Achieve 99.99% uptime at the VM level with high-availability architecture, and only cloud with SAP-certified servers for VMware workloads.
- Modernize VMware workloads with Red Hat® OpenShift® and PaaS across virtual machines (VMs) and containers.
- Operate with the highest level key management encryption with FIPS 140-2 Level 4 and “keep your own keys” (KYOK).
- Run with one of the world’s largest operators of VMware workloads with 15 years of experience and expertise with VMware technologies.
Each of the IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is available with an array of deployment options, as well as self-managed or managed options. Infrastructure, software, and support for these bundles are all included in the monthly subscription price. No contracts are necessary, and you can scale up or down at any time. In the self-managed option, you can rent VMware licenses on a monthly subscription basis. Licenses rented from IBM Cloud are offered on a monthly subscription and metered per physical CPU for extremely advantageous pricing.
In the managed option, VMware licenses are baked into the price of the solution. The solution runs on multi-tenant infrastructure and can be consumed in a highly scalable hourly model.
IC4V Shared is offered in two consumption models: On-Demand and Reserved. With “On-Demand,” compute resources are made available to users on an as-needed basis and billed hourly. This model is a best fit for VMs that are consumed for a short period of time or for fluctuating-capacity needs such as cloud bursting and running non-critical DR workloads.
With "Reserved," clients can reserve their compute capacity needs with an up-front reservation in a monthly billing model, guaranteeing the availability of resources. Other than compute, all resources such as storage and egress are charged as per actual usage for both "On-Demand" and "Reserved" consumption models.
No. IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions provides full native access to the VMware stack. Clients can move workloads to and from the cloud without changing apps, tooling or scripts—or investing in new resources or skills.
IBM Cloud provides flexible pricing compared to other cloud providers. For example, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions offers monthly pricing with no commitments, whereas VMC on AWS offers on-demand hourly, 1-year and 3-year commitment pricing. Plus, data transfer within IBM Cloud is free.
Additionally, IBM Cloud offers dedicated or multi-tenant infrastructure for VMware workloads, providing clients the flexibility to cost-efficiently run all types of workloads from dev and test to mission-critical in an appropriate environment.
It’s great to know that you are using public cloud resources. IBM Cloud has a number of key differentiators that set it apart from other clouds. Examples:
- Provides highest data security certification in the industry with KYOK
- Offers no-cost data movement across data centers over the IBM private network
- Delivers stronger data security, which splits network traffic into three streams (private, public and management)
- Unlike some of our competitors, IBM doesn't use customers' data to train our AI model
- Award-winning unified cloud user interface
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions was jointly engineered with VMware and was the first cloud solution built for VMware workloads. You can still go to your VMware sales representative today to ask about IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions.
Yes. You can work with the IBM Cloud Professional Services team to design, accelerate and implement VMware solutions on bare metal servers. Whether you need help with implementation, workload migration or a fully managed environment, the IBM Cloud Professional Services team can help meet your needs. IBM Cloud becomes an extension of your existing data centers.
Footnotes
* Listed configurations are for representative purposes only. IBM Cloud for VCF as a Service (Multitenant) allows users to configure VMs of any size.
- Starting Price: Reserved consumption for a single VM running 24x7 with 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 20 GB of vSAN storage, with an Efficiency Network Edge server, is priced at ~USD 127 per month in the Dallas region.
- All prices are inclusive of VCF licenses, that are built into the IBM Cloud for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service platform.
- The prices stated on this page are for the Dallas (US) region, and are subject to change.
- Additional charges are applicable for Storage Edge, Network Edge tiers, Private Service Endpoints, Egress, add-on services, consumption-based charges, etc.
- VCF as a Service Multitenant is available in both Single and Multi-Zone Region options.
- 1- and 3-year commitments for Multitenant consumption qualify for standard discounts (vs. Hourly prices) of 30% and 40%, respectively.
- 1- and 3-year commitments for Single-tenant consumption qualify for standard discounts (vs. Reserved prices) of 30% and 50%, respectively.
- # Listed configurations are for repsentative purposes only. 1- and 3- year promotional price for single /multitenant consumption commitments.
- A savings of up to 50% off list price is only applicable to new VCF-as-a-Service (VMware Solutions on IBM Cloud) 1-or-3-year term contracts.
- Migration credits are only available for new clients to VMware solutions on IBM Cloud. This migration credit offer is valid now until Dec 31, 2025. Credit amounts up to 20% of Client's eligible spend amount.
- Migration credits are only available to IBM Cloud Paygo, Subscription, and Enterprise saving plan account types.
