OVHcloud Powers VMware Explore 2025 Hands-on Labs Worldwide

OVHcloud has announced and demonstrated its role as the exclusive infrastructure partner powering VMware Explore 2025 Hands-on Labs in Las Vegas and has extended its VCD deployment into a new Public VCF as-a-Service offering.

• Main announcement/action: OVHcloud powered VMware Explore 2025 Hands-on Labs using a custom-engineered platform (VCF 9 + vCloud Director 10.6 on bare metal) deployed across 37 dedicated servers delivering 4.47 THz total CPU, 28.83 TB RAM, and 843.6 TB NVMe VSAN storage (450 TB usable); configuration included Intel Cascade Lake processors, vSphere 8, three clusters with NSX-T, and orchestration via VMware Cloud Director (VCD).
• Background & other details: The partnership (partners for over 15 years) operated with weekly global engineering touchpoints; OVHcloud has extended VCD beyond the event as a Public VCF as-a-Service to run VMware Cloud Foundation at scale for customers worldwide and will support VMware Explore On Tour 2025 in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Sydney, Mumbai, and Tokyo.