• New client specials: Get up to 50% off when you commit to a 1- or 3-year term contract on new VCF-as-a-Service offerings, plus an additional value of up to USD 200K in credits through 30 June 2025 when you migrate your VMware workloads to IBM Cloud®.¹
• Low starting prices: On-demand VCF-as-a-Service deployments begin under USD 200 per month.²
• The IBM Cloud benefit: See the potential for a 201%³ return on investment (ROI) over 3 years with reduced downtime, cost and increased efficiency after deploying to IBM Cloud based on a 2024 IBM-commissioned study by Forrester.

As enterprises look to embrace hybrid cloud and AI to deliver agility and drive change securely, recent changes in packaging and pricing for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) are making them reassess how they can most efficiently use VMware in the future in a less complex and more cost-effective way. With many mission-critical workloads spread out across on-premises and cloud, this can present hurdles around where data lives, how it’s accessed and the necessary security and governance to ensure trust, particularly when using gen AI. For organizations looking to develop their workload placement strategies, especially for their critical virtualized mid- and back-office workloads, it’s important to find fit-for-purpose management options no matter where they are in their journeys to meet future opportunities and drive outcomes. 

VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud offers VMware’s flagship product, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), with a broad suite of deployment options, including fully managed or self-managed for both single and multitenant workload requirements.

Our fully managed VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service (VCFaaS) is designed to migrate and modernize your VMware workloads to the cloud. IBM Cloud handles the configuration, capacity management, monitoring, patching, upgrades and security of the underlying VMware infrastructure so organizations can focus on running their businesses rather than investing heavily in resources, time and backend management.

Fully managed VCFaaS offering deployment options: 1) a single tenant deployment for higher degrees of isolation and dedicated infrastructure or 2) a multitenant, shared infrastructure deployment for competitive, entry-level pricing and on-demand consumption.

IBM Cloud also offers a self-managed VCF with full hypervisor access, which mirrors the user experience of managing VMware workloads on-premises, including using existing skills, tools and processes while taking advantage of cloud economics.

VMware on IBM Cloud offers scalable, secured innovation with the potential for a 201% ROI over 3 years

Modernize your VMware workloads with a secure and flexible cloud that has yielded a 201% ROI³ over a 3-year period. The 2024 Total Economic Impact (TEI) study from Forrester Consulting, commissioned by IBM, shows that by migrating VMware workloads to IBM Cloud, a composite organization of interviewed customers could achieve nearly USD 6M in present value benefits over a 3-year period. With IBM Cloud, you have the ability to choose from hundreds of hardware profiles and manage your VMware environment by yourself, by IBM Cloud or by your system integrators. Customers like Jenzabar, Movius, Harry Rosen, QAD and Prysmian Group use IBM Cloud for their VMware workload migration and management journeys.

Discounted pricing and flexible billing for more convenient sourcing

By using VCF, you can choose from a wide variety of pricing options, including on-demand (hourly), reserved (monthly) and 1-year and 3-year committed term usage. The VCFaaS multitenant solution is one of the lowest entry price points for VMware infrastructure in the IBM Cloud starting at less than USD 200² per month and scaling to match your business needs. 

New client specials for VCF on IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud is pleased to announce the following special offers for new clients.  

• 1- or 3-year term contracts: Get up to 50% off list price when you commit to a 1- or 3-year term contract on new VCF-as-a-Service offerings.¹

• Migrate and save: From now until 30 September 2024, get up to USD 200Kin credits when you migrate your VMware workloads to IBM Cloud.¹

Getting started

1. Savings of up to 50% 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 30 September 2024. Credit amounts will be 20% of the client’s eligible expenditure amount up to a maximum of USD 200K in credits and may be applied to usage through 30 June 2025. Migration credits are only available to IBM Cloud Paygo, Subscription and Enterprise saving plan account types.
2. 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 cost USD 127.00/month. View additional pricing and configuration details.
3. The Total Economic Impact™ of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, TEI Forrester Consulting Study commissioned by IBM, March 2024. https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/6M1QN5VO