Newly Updated Technical Guides: MS SQL Server and ADDS on VMware Cloud Foundation

Discover more from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog Related Articles Newly Updated Technical Guides: MS SQL Server and ADDS on VMware Cloud Foundation Advanced Cyber Compliance: Security, Compliance, and Resilience for VCF A Closer Look at VMware Cloud Foundation Advanced Services You’ve met VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). You’ve met modern Microsoft workloads. Now you need prescriptive guidance that reflects how people are actually building private clouds today—especially when the applications in question are the ones your business can’t afford to get wrong. We’ve just published a collection of refreshed versions of technical guides that bring our guidance forward for VCF-era architectures, and for newer Microsoft application capabilities, including SQL Server 2025 and Windows Server 2025. If you’re planning a VCF rollout, upgrading your existing ones, standardizing a platform, refreshing your SQL Server estate, or modernizing identity infrastructure, we recommend reviewing these documents before your next design workshop, procurement cycle, or migration runbook gets locked. Guide 1: Architecting Microsoft SQL Server on VMware Cloud Foundation For many teams, the decision to virtualize SQL Server is already settled. As the guide puts it: “ the focus is no longer on whether to virtualize SQL Server, but on how to… ” That “how” has changed materially in a VCF world. The platform is more opinionated, the operational model is more standardized, and the supporting capabilities (storage, networking, lifecycle, security) have evolved to account for advancements in hardware capabilities and operational methodologies. This updated guide is for readers who already understand both V CF and SQL Server. It serves multiple roles: architects, engineers/admins, and DBAs. A few highlights worth calling out: Modern CPU and NUMA guidance, now including new VCF-era topology behaviors. The guide walks through the “new vNUMA topology configuration options in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)” and why those behaviors matter for large SQL Server VMs.