Vmware iconVmwareAug 27, 2026

VMware Cloud Foundation Achieves NVIDIA Certification: AI Workload Performance Validated to Operate at Near Bare Metal Performance

The rapid shift toward agentic AI has introduced critical operational, cost, and governance challenges. Unlike linearly growing inference usage by users, autonomous agents generate non-linear inference usage and can quickly overwhelm IT infrastructure.

VMware Cloud Foundation Achieves NVIDIA Certification: AI Workload Performance Validated to Operate at Near Bare Metal Performance

Share this story

Send the public story page.

Useful takeaways from this story.

The rapid shift toward agentic AI has introduced critical operational, cost, and governance challenges.

Unlike linearly growing inference usage by users, autonomous agents generate non-linear inference usage and can quickly overwhelm IT infrastructure.

Announcement Today, we are announcing VMware vSphere 9.1 (and all future vSphere 9 releases) is now an NVIDIA -Certified Hypervisor, with near bare metal performance for AI workloads.

Building the complete brief

The page is ready to read now. The fuller skim-friendly version will appear here automatically.

The useful part

The rapid shift toward agentic AI has introduced critical operational, cost, and governance challenges. Unlike linearly growing inference usage by users, autonomous agents generate non-linear inference usage and can quickly overwhelm IT infrastructure. Announcement Today, we are announcing VMware vSphere 9.1 (and all future vSphere 9 releases) is now an NVIDIA -Certified Hypervisor, with near bare metal performance for AI workloads.

Details worth keeping

Performance is a critical aspect of today's agentic era.

Keep reading in the app

Open the app view to save this story, compare related coverage, and continue from the same source.

Open in app