About VMware and IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud® provides the capability for you to provision dedicated Bare Metal Servers upon which you can deploy your own VMware based private cloud. For example, you can create a hybrid cloud where on-premises VMware-based servers, tools, and processes can be extended into the public cloud.

vSphere workloads and catalogs can be provisioned onto VMware vSphere environments within IBM Cloud data centers without modification to VMware VMs or guests. The use of a common vSphere hypervisor and management or orchestration platform makes these deployments possible. vSphere implementations also enable the use of other components of the VMware vCloud Suite – vSphere, vRealize, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and NSX.

The core objective of VMware and IBM Cloud is to assist vSphere administrators to deploy VMware vSphere environments within an IBM Cloud infrastructure. VMware administrators can use bare metal instances and network, storage, and backup and recovery constructs in a self-service manner. These constructs can then be used to deploy fully functional vSphere implementations, which can be built to extend or replace on-premises vSphere implementations.

For more information about administering vSphere, see

• VMware Education
• VMware vSphere documentation.