Red Hat OpenShift expands support for VMware vSphere Foundation 9 and VMware Cloud Foundation 9

Red Hat OpenShift expands support for VMware vSphere Foundation 9 and VMware Cloud Foundation 9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform | Product Trial About the authors Richard Vanderpool Joseph Callen Michal Zasepa More like this 14 software architecture design patterns to know Getting started with socat, a multipurpose relay tool for Linux Technically Speaking | Platform engineering for AI agents Technically Speaking | Driving healthcare discoveries with AI Keep exploring Browse by channel Automation Artificial intelligence Open hybrid cloud Security Edge computing Infrastructure Applications Virtualization Share General availability (GA) support is now available for Red Hat OpenShift versions 4.18, 4.19, and 4.20 running on VMware vSphere Foundation 9 (VVF9) and VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF9). As organizations continue to modernize their infrastructure, Red Hat remains committed to providing a stable, certified, and high-performance foundation for Kubernetes workloads across diverse environments. This announcement means that all current Red Hat customers deploying OpenShift on vSphere 8/vCenter 8 or VCF 5 can run their workloads on OpenShift clusters deployed on VVF9 or VCF9 as an infrastructure provider. With the introduction of VCF9, Broadcom has evolved its strategy to offer a comprehensive, all-in-one product suite. Red Hat has aligned its support to integrate with this new architecture. Customers deploying OpenShift clusters on top of VCF9 will use a standardized networking model: Infrastructure network provider : Powered by VMware NSX , helping to ensure robust connectivity at the hypervisor level. Overlay network : Powered by OVN-Kubernetes , providing the standard, agile networking layer required by OpenShift. For NSX Container Network Interface (CNI) integration, Red Hat uses the Partner certification process (see Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog ) to verify partner components are verified for compatibility with Red Hat products, maintaining the stability and security that our customers expect. To support the full lifecycle of your applications, we are also updating our management and storage compatibility for the VVF9 and VCF9 platforms. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (ACM) 2.15.1+ supports both VVF9 and VCF9. This allows operations teams to manage their OpenShift fleet across these new VMware environments with the same governance, visibility, and control they use today. For customers utilizing OpenShift Data Foundation versions 4.19.7 and 4.20 are available as a Technology Preview (TP) on VVF9 and VCF9.