VMware vSphere remains an important piece of VMware's vision, not only as a cloud OS or an infrastructure part, but also a universal application platform that supports both traditional and next-generation applications (the so-called cloud-native applications). While these two worlds are vastly different, both require infrastructure with the scalability, performance, and availability capabilities needed to meet key business objectives.

VMware vSphere 6.5 also lets you run applications from any cloud, including your data center or in public cloud environments. For this reason, vSphere 6.5 is not only the heart of the SDDC, it's also the foundation of VMware's cloud strategy. vSphere 6.5 is available in both the private cloud and as a service through a public cloud. The new products or solutions, such as VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cloud on AWS, and vSphere Integrated Containers, are all built on vSphere 6.5.

To run any application, vSphere 6.5 expands its workload coverage model by focusing on both scale-up and scale-out next-generation applications that are increasingly built using evolving technology building blocks such as containers.