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---
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title: "VMware"
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type: entity
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tags:
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- VMware
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- Virtualization
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- Hybrid-Cloud
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last_updated: 2026-04-25
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---
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## VMware
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Enterprise virtualization and cloud computing software provider. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is known for its vSphere hypervisor and vCenter management platform.
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## Aliases
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- VMware, Inc.
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- VMware Cloud
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## Overview
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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.
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## Key Offerings
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- **vSphere**: Enterprise virtualization platform
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- **vCenter**: Centralized management for vSphere environments
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- **HCX (Hybrid Cloud Extension)**: Enables any-to-any vSphere workload migration between on-premises and cloud
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- **VMC on AWS**: VMware Cloud on AWS jointly engineered with Amazon Web Services
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## Key People
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- Brian Reeves — VMware speaker, discussed VMC on AWS economics (27% cost savings vs. regular cloud)
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- Michael Riley — VMware speaker
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- Mike Armstrong — VMware speaker
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- Mike O'Reilly — Staff Cloud Solutions Architect at VMware, explained VMC on AWS technical architecture
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## Connections
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- [[VMware-Cloud-on-AWS]] ← provides ← [[AWS]] infrastructure partnership
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- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]] ← source ← [[VMware]]
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- [[ctp-topic-69-best-practices-for-migrating-on-premises-iod-virtual-machines-to-vm]] ← related_to ← [[VMware]]
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## Sources
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- [[ctp-topic-43-vmware-cloud-on-aws]]
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