Broadcom Launches 128-Core vSphere Express and Adds Live Recovery and Compliance Services to VMware Cloud Foundation
StorageReview, Wednesday, November 4th, 2026
Broadcom adds VMware Live Recovery and compliance services to VCF and launches a 128-core vSphere Express for smaller sites.
Broadcom has updated the VMware Cloud Foundation portfolio with two new Advanced Services, VMware Live Recovery and VMware Compliance and Configuration Management, the latter based on Salt.
It also introduced VMware vSphere Express, a 128-core package built on vSphere 9 for smaller environments.
Broadcom outlined the next VCF release, planned for its fiscal first quarter of 2027, with automated AI infrastructure deployment, native S3-compatible object storage on vSAN, infrastructure compliance management, policy-based VPC connectivity and native disaster recovery.
Some highlighted capabilities already shipped in VCF 9.1.1, generally available since September 3.