Planning your deployment
End of Marketing: As of 31 October 2025, new deployments of VMware Solutions offerings are no longer available for new customers. Existing customers can still use and expand their active VMware® workloads on IBM Cloud®. For more information, see End of Marketing for VMware on IBM Cloud.
Make sure that you are already familiar with the fundamental components and options that are provided by IBM Cloud Classic Infrastructure for SAP. Before you start with the deployment of servers, make sure that you also read the Get Started section.
Content to review before you start deploying
To ensure that your first deployment is a success, review the following information:
- Classic Infrastructure environment introduction
- The Plan your SAP workloads topic group
- The Infrastructure for SAP design considerations topic group
Additional information about VMware and IBM Cloud is available on:
- IBM Cloud Intel Bare Metal and VMware vSphere (ESXi OS) for the manual VMware setup and configuration
- IBM Cloud VMware offering comparison chart understand the differences in feature support between IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions offerings
Other useful documents
See the respective topics in the Get Started section for the following information: