---
title: "VMware"
type: entity
tags:
  - VMware
  - Virtualization
  - Hybrid-Cloud
last_updated: 2026-04-25
---

## VMware

Enterprise virtualization and cloud computing software provider. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is known for its vSphere hypervisor and vCenter management platform.

## Aliases
- VMware, Inc.
- VMware Cloud

## Overview
VMware partnered with AWS to develop **VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC on AWS)**, a jointly engineered cloud service where the VMware hypervisor runs natively on AWS bare metal servers (i3.metal / i3en.metal). This is not a simple deployment of VMware software onto cloud infrastructure — it is a true joint engineering effort between VMware and AWS.

## Key Offerings
- **vSphere**: Enterprise virtualization platform
- **vCenter**: Centralized management for vSphere environments
- **HCX (Hybrid Cloud Extension)**: Enables any-to-any vSphere workload migration between on-premises and cloud
- **VMC on AWS**: VMware Cloud on AWS jointly engineered with Amazon Web Services

## Key People
- Brian Reeves — VMware speaker, discussed VMC on AWS economics (27% cost savings vs. regular cloud)
- Michael Riley — VMware speaker
- Mike Armstrong — VMware speaker
- Mike O'Reilly — Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware, explained VMC on AWS technical architecture

## Connections
- [[VMware-Cloud-on-AWS]] ← provides ← [[AWS]] infrastructure partnership
- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]] ← source ← [[VMware]]
- [[ctp-topic-69-best-practices-for-migrating-on-premises-iod-virtual-machines-to-vm]] ← related_to ← [[VMware]]

## Sources
- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]]