It's a reference architecture. It's based on vSAN Ready Node, however, it basically is tied to VMware in the public cloud, so it has all the VMware components tied to it.

It's a hybrid-based solution, so it's installed on-premise. Basically, you can drag and drop resources without having to do any type of conversions, IP changes, or anything else, into AWS Azure, where they have the VMware workloads running as well as VMware partners that have their VMware public environments up and running. It's that reference architecture that gives you that complete elasticity to be able to transport workloads seamlessly to pretty much anywhere.

Our clients use VMware Cloud Foundation for SDDC implementations. When it comes to data centers, traditionally, data center infrastructure components are standalone systems, like blade servers or rack servers sitting inside a rack. 

But with a software-defined data center (SDDC), you buy a larger hardware component from a vendor like HP, Dell, Nutanix, etc., and then virtualize that hardware to create a pool of VMs, storage, and other resources. 

This concept isn't confined to just compute and storage. You extend this understanding and capability to your network (e.g., software-defined SD-WAN or software-defined networks) and backup (e.g., software-defined backup running on backup appliances like HP StoreOnce). 

You define backup policies through software, specifying which VMs need to be backed up, how often, and the backup retention period. That's how we technically sell these software-defined data center concepts to our customers.

Another thing to consider with data centers is power consumption, which is directly related to the hardware configuration running in the data center. The capacity and power consumption of the hardware you buy from HP, Dell, Nutanix, Cisco, etc., affects your operating costs. Imagine kilowatts of power running over a period of years, so it's a significant cost factor. So, it's not just about the technical capacity but also the power consumption, which is a major discussion point.

Our customers use the VMware Cloud Formation as an alternative to other public cloud services such as Azure or Amazon Web Services. It provides them with an additional option for their data analytics and business intelligence needs.

I've many use cases. Infrastructure as code would be my number one.

We have various on-premise environments. To upgrade user lifecycle management of those standalone environments with repeated patch upgrades, hardware lifecycle management, and software lifecycle management. For all of these issues, we use VMware Cloud Foundation because it does everything. 

The interoperability checkings, and supportability matrix, it does internally and gives recommendations automatically on what type of hardware we're using. For example, it gives automatic recommendations of all the hardware lifecycle drivers, and firmware, including the software stack. 

The solution is cloud-based.

There are two people using this solution in my organization.

We were working with versions 5, 5.5, 6, then upgraded to 6.7.

VMware Cloud Foundation can be deployed on a private cloud or hybrid configuration.

We are using it for infrastructure automation. We have a manager of a manager to take care of day zero, day one, and day two operations, which makes deployment and management easier. We also have workload clusters that segregate the workload based on the different types of applications we have, such as sat clusters, PC clusters, mixed-door clusters, and container clusters.

Our primary use case is for auto-scaling and automation of VM created automation with some governance and policies.

What it does for people is it enables other companies to be able to move their workloads to the cloud, just like Amazon. People can move their workloads to the cloud, however, at this time you are using it, you are actually running the cloud via VMware.

My client uses the product to get different tenants in the environment. 

We are using VMware Cloud Foundation for many types of workloads, such as automation, VDI, general-purpose workloads, and databases.

We use VMware Cloud Foundation to host our in-house data. 

Our clients use the solution as their hybrid cloud infrastructure. 

We are a system integrator and this is one of the solutions that we provide to our clients.

The primary use of this solution is data center consolidation.

This solution gives you the option to have a second copy of your data center for disaster recovery. For VMware, you can achieve asynchronous replication, which means that you have active and passive replication between two sites. Active means that the production is up, but the disaster recovery is read-only. When you bring up the mirror, the other site becomes active and the production site becomes read-only.

We use it to deploy different customers on to a single platform. We manage the hardware from the top foundation. We look at the logs and we position the networks. 

We use the product for servicing infrastructure and as a platform for various databases.

We use the solution for automated deployment and infrastructure maintenance features.

VMware Cloud Foundation can be used to make private clouds faster than the traditional way. Additionally, it can be used for continuity. If you want to run with Tanzu, you can build a full-stack environment of VMware, such as vSphere, or NSX.

We are service providers and therefore we only sell this program to our customers. So we don't use it ourselves. Our customers use it for all kinds of purposes like VDI environments, private clouds, connection to public clouds, office automation purposes and applications running on top of this. They use it to consolidate their environment of servers and it provides them a migration path towards cloud environment or private cloud environments.