Shifts in the digital landscape create a rare opportunity for IT leaders to move beyond maintaining legacy systems and instead architect bold business growth. Complexity, cost, compliance, and the pursuit of data sovereignty are leading organisations to think twice about public cloud, with many choosing to unlock resilience and accelerate transformation through a private cloud strategy.
As a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner, we are the UK’s most trusted specialists for delivering private cloud on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). Xtravirt provides the clarity, specialised expertise, and operational continuity that allows your team to stop managing fragmented infrastructure and start delivering the strategic private cloud services your organisation demands.
By unifying your environment into a single, automated platform, we empower your teams to deploy critical services in hours rather than weeks.
Regain total control over your cloud economics and TCO with a simplified, transparent, and scalable consumption model.
Protect your most valuable assets by maintaining full authority over where your data resides, ensuring long-term compliance and security.
Adopting a platform as powerful as VMware Cloud Foundation is a significant milestone, but the ultimate value lies in how it is integrated into the fabric of your business. Engaging with a specialist partner ensures that your transition to private cloud is not just a technical upgrade, but aligned to your strategic goals. By combining your internal domain knowledge with our deep architectural expertise and operational support, we remove the burden of complexity, allowing your leadership team to focus on the vision while we ensure the foundation is flawless.
The shift to a full-stack private cloud infrastructure is most effective when preceded by a clear, objective architectural blueprint. By aligning your long-term business goals with a tailored roadmap, you eliminate the guesswork. Xtravirt guides your journey to private cloud with VCF, giving you a clear path to value, faster return on investment (ROI), and alignment to your commercial and C-suite goals from day one.
The true advantage of a modernised platform is found in its immediate impact on business agility. Utilising specialised expertise to handle the complexities of deployment ensures a seamless transition that preserves operational integrity. This high-velocity approach bypasses the traditional learning curve, allowing your organisation to benefit from the performance of a robust private cloud without the friction of a protracted implementation.
Maximum ROI is achieved when a platform is not just installed, but continuously optimised and evolved. With the post-deployment support of Xtravirt Managed Services, you can ensure your environment remains resilient, secure, and performant in the face of changing market demands. This creates a stable foundation that empowers your internal teams to step away from routine maintenance and focus entirely on the high-value innovation that drives competitive advantage.
Through our customer relationships and research we have compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions regarding VMware Cloud Foundation. However, if you have a question that we’ve not covered off below, don’t hesitate to contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as we have an answer.
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is the culmination of over two decades of innovation by VMware and Broadcom, combining all the elements of the Software Defined Data Centre – compute, storage, and networking – as a complete package, and then adds centralised management, automation and operations.
VCF 9.0 is a unified private cloud platform that consolidates compute, storage, networking, and management into a single, automated stack. Unlike traditional vSphere, it provides a cloud-like operating model on-premises, enabling rapid self-service, integrated security, and native support for modern AI workloads. This unlocks the features and benefits of the public cloud while retaining the control, cost predictability, security and compliance of a data centre environment. VCF has earned recognition as a G2 Leader in the “Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)” category for Autumn 2025, underscoring Broadcom’s commitment to delivering a modern, intelligent, and secure private cloud platform that empowers organisations to run traditional and modern workloads consistently across data centres, edge, and sovereign environments.
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is a complete private cloud platform that goes far beyond basic virtualisation. It integrates compute, storage, networking, and security into a unified software-defined infrastructure that’s designed for modern workloads. VCF provides automated lifecycle management, streamlined operations, and the flexibility to run everything from traditional applications to Kubernetes containers and AI workloads – all on a single, consistent platform. This comprehensive approach reduces complexity, accelerates deployment, and positions your infrastructure for future innovation.
When evaluating VCF’s total cost of ownership (TCO), organisations should look beyond licensing costs. Xtravirt combines consulting expertise and the use of advanced tooling to help customers understand the full value it can unlock. In our experience, when adopted strategically within an organisation, VCF creates multiple opportunities for businesses to save costs and increase efficiency from its full stack of technologies with predictable, consistent pricing. Key value drivers include:
Xtravirt can help you model TCO accurately and identify opportunities to optimise your investment over the contract term.
VCF’s integrated approach means you have access to enterprise-grade networking (NSX), software-defined storage (vSAN), and advanced security features as part of your platform. Even if you’re not using all capabilities today, this gives you strategic flexibility to adopt new technologies without procurement delays or integration complexity. The key is working with a partner like Xtravirt who can help you create a phased adoption roadmap – implementing core capabilities first, then progressively enabling additional features as your organisation’s needs evolve. This approach ensures you’re deriving value throughout your contract term.
The right VCF partner brings more than technical certifications – they bring proven methodologies, deep experience, and a commitment to your organisation’s long-term success. A Broadcom Pinnacle Partner, such as Xtravirt, is officially recognised by Broadcom for having:
What’s more, Xtravirt offers services designed to support customers beyond the deployment of VCF. With Xtravirt Managed Services, customers can select from a portfolio of flexible and modular packages that align and integrate seamlessly with your organisation’s internal operating model. We work in partnership with you to understand your business challenges and strategic priorities, and to provide our expertise whenever and wherever you need it.
Yes. VCF is designed for enterprise integration and supports hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. It works seamlessly with existing VMware deployments, integrates with leading backup and monitoring solutions, and provides APIs for automation and orchestration tools. Importantly, VCF is built to support modern workloads including Kubernetes (via Tanzu), AI and machine learning initiatives, and containerised applications – ensuring your platform evolves with your strategic requirements rather than constraining them.
VCF Operations provides intelligent, automated lifecycle management across your entire software-defined infrastructure. This means coordinated updates, patches, and upgrades across compute, storage, and networking – with built-in validation capabilities. The operational benefits include:
Working with an expert partner like Xtravirt to guide your technology journey, automated lifecycle management transforms infrastructure management from reactive to proactive.
VCF provides enterprise-grade security built into the platform, not bolted on afterwards, and because you control the entire stack in your private cloud, you maintain complete visibility and governance – critical for regulated industries. VCF’s architecture also simplifies compliance by providing consistent security controls across all workloads and clear separation of duties for access management.
Migrating to VCF is a strategic upgrade, not a disruptive rip-and-replace. Your existing vSphere workloads can run on VCF immediately, and you can adopt additional capabilities progressively. Time-to-value depends on your approach: many organisations see immediate benefits from simplified management and automation, then over time unlock additional value as they enable advanced networking, security, and cloud management features. An experienced partner like Xtravirt can typically deliver a phased implementation that starts showing returns within the first quarter while building towards your longer-term objectives.
VCF is purpose-built for longevity and evolution. Broadcom continues to invest in VCF as its flagship private cloud platform, with regular releases adding capabilities for emerging technologies like AI, advanced Kubernetes support, and enhanced automation. The platform’s modular architecture means you can adopt new capabilities as they become relevant to your business without architectural changes. Working with a strategic partner like Xtravirt who provides ongoing optimisation and roadmap planning, ensures your VCF environment evolves in step with your organisation’s needs.
Exploring alternatives is a reasonable part of any strategic infrastructure decision. However, it’s important to evaluate the complete picture: migration costs and risks, application compatibility and re-architecture requirements, operational disruption during transition, loss of existing automation and tooling investments, retraining requirements for IT teams, and the maturity and ecosystem of alternative platforms. Many organisations find that optimising their VCF investment with the right partner delivers better outcomes with far less risk and disruption than a platform migration. If you’re evaluating options, we’d recommend a thorough TCO and risk analysis that includes all hidden costs of change – not just licensing comparisons.
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