VMware Cloud Foundation with VMware Tanzu
VMware Cloud Foundation™ with VMware Tanzu™ enables you to deploy and operate the compute, networking, and storage infrastructure for
vSphere IaaS Control Plane
workloads. vSphere IaaS Control Plane
transforms vSphere to a platform for running Kubernetes workloads natively on the hypervisor layer. When enabled on a vSphere cluster,
vSphere IaaS Control Plane
provides the capability to run Kubernetes workloads directly on ESXi hosts and to create upstream Kubernetes clusters within dedicated resource pools. vSphere IaaS Control Plane
can also be enabled on the management domain default cluster.
Starting with vSphere 8.0 Update 3, vSphere with Tanzu was renamed to
vSphere IaaS Control Plane
.You validate the underlying infrastructure for
vSphere IaaS Control Plane
from the SDDC Manager UI
and then complete the deployment in the vSphere Client. The SDDC Manager UI
refers to the vSphere IaaS Control Plane
functionality as Kubernetes - Workload Management. The Developer Ready Infrastructure for VMware Cloud Foundation validated solution provides design, implementation, and operational guidance for a workload domain that runs vSphere with Tanzu workloads in the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).
For more information about
vSphere IaaS Control Plane
, see What Is vSphere Iaas control plane?.