As organizations continue to grow, traditional infrastructure often reaches its limits. Managing thousands of servers, supporting global operations, and delivering infrastructure quickly requires more than additional hardware—it requires a modern, automated cloud platform built for scale.
This was exactly the challenge faced by Broadcom. Its existing internal cloud infrastructure could no longer keep pace with the company’s rapid growth, making a complete redesign unavoidable. Working closely with VMware’s internal design teams, comdivision helped design a next-generation internal cloud built on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)and VMware Cloud Director.
The result was a highly automated, scalable Software-Defined Data Center capable of supporting more than 25,000 hosts.
The Challenge: Replacing a Legacy Internal Cloud
Broadcom operated a large internal cloud based on a third-party hyper-converged infrastructure.
While the platform had served the business successfully for years, it eventually reached its scalability limits.
The company needed a new cloud platform that could:
- support more than 25,000 hosts,
- automate infrastructure provisioning,
- simplify operations,
- provide secure multi-tenancy,
- support global engineering teams, and
- scale efficiently for future growth.
At this size, manual administration was no longer sustainable.
Automation had to become a core operational principle.
Why Broadcom Chose comdivision
The engagement began after VMware’s Cloud Provider Business Unit recommended comdivision based on its extensive experience designing large-scale VMware cloud platforms.
The Internal Cloud Team summarizes the collaboration:
“Thanks to comdivision’s and VMware’s expertise, Broadcom was able to reduce our data center transformation timeline from more than three years to just twelve months — with measurable value already after three months.”
The objective was not simply to migrate infrastructure—but to create a future-proof cloud architecture capable of supporting long-term business growth.
What comdivision Delivered
Working together with Broadcom and VMware engineering teams, comdivision helped design and validate the new cloud platform.
The project included:
- architecture design for a new VMware Cloud Foundation platform
- implementation of VMware Cloud Director
- migration from a third-party hyper-converged infrastructure to a VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
- development of a building-block architecture for rack-based scaling
- implementation of automation as a core operational model
- close collaboration with VMware product business units throughout the design and validation process
The focus was on creating a standardized platform capable of growing without increasing operational complexity.
Technology Stack
The new platform was built using VMware’s complete cloud infrastructure stack, including:
- VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
- VMware Cloud Director
- VMware Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)
- VMware compute, storage, and networking technologies
Together, these technologies provide a fully integrated private cloud platform with centralized lifecycle management, automation, and secure multi-tenancy.
The Results
The new internal cloud delivered measurable operational improvements.
Key outcomes included:
- support for more than 25,000 hosts
- fully automated infrastructure provisioning
- provisioning times reduced from weeks to minutes
- approximately 60% reduction in overall infrastructure footprint
- highly scalable building-block architecture
- secure multi-tenant cloud platform
- improved operational efficiency
- standardized infrastructure for global operations
The combination of VMware Cloud Foundation and Cloud Director created a platform capable of supporting Broadcom’s continued global expansion.
Why Automation Becomes Essential at Enterprise Scale
Managing infrastructure at enterprise scale requires a fundamentally different operating model.
As environments grow, manual deployment and configuration become increasingly difficult to maintain.
VMware Cloud Foundation enables organizations to automate:
- infrastructure provisioning,
- lifecycle management,
- workload deployment,
- platform operations, and
- ongoing infrastructure management.
This reduces operational overhead while improving consistency, reliability, and scalability.
For organizations operating thousands of servers, automation is no longer optional—it is essential.
Building a Cloud Platform for Long-Term Growth
One of the project’s primary objectives was creating an architecture capable of supporting future expansion without repeated redesigns.
The building-block approach allows additional capacity to be introduced in a standardized and predictable way.
Combined with VMware Cloud Director, the platform also supports secure multi-tenancy and centralized cloud management, making it suitable for large global engineering organizations.
The result is a cloud architecture that remains flexible while significantly reducing operational complexity.
Conclusion
This customer success story demonstrates how VMware Cloud Foundation can serve as the foundation for highly automated enterprise cloud platforms.
By partnering with comdivision, Broadcom successfully:
- replaced its legacy internal cloud,
- designed a scalable Software-Defined Data Center,
- implemented VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware Cloud Director,
- automated infrastructure provisioning,
- reduced operational complexity,
- lowered infrastructure footprint by approximately 60%, and
- established a future-ready cloud platform capable of supporting more than 25,000 hosts.
Organizations planning large-scale private cloud initiatives can benefit from proven VMware Cloud Foundation architecture and automation expertise. A well-designed platform provides the scalability, operational efficiency, and long-term flexibility required to support modern enterprise IT environments and future business growth.
