Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation with storage, compute options

Broadcom announced upgrades to its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Portfolio this week, including an increase in vSAN capacity as well as compute virtualization options for customers.

VMware increased the virtual storage area network (vSAN) capacity in vSphere Foundation by 2.5x to 250 GiB per core, which the company says will offer customers a more powerful HCI (hyperconverged infrastructure) offering for running virtual machines and containers. VMware’s vSAN is storage virtualization software designed for HCI and multicloud environments and provides customers with centralized management from a single cloud console. The additional storage capabilities will give customers greater scalability, according to VMware.

“To give our customers a more powerful and valuable enterprise-class HCI solution for running VMs and containers with IT infrastructure optimization, we will be increasing the amount of vSAN capacity included in VMware vSphere Foundation by 2.5x to 250 GiB per core,” said Prashanth Shenoy, vice president of product marketing, VCF division, Broadcom, in a blog.