The VMware Engine ve2 node type is now available in the following
additional region:
northamerica-south1)All 3-year (36-month) post-paid ve2 committed use discounts (CUDs) for Google Cloud VMware Engine purchased after May 31, 2026, will terminate on October 15, 2028. 3-year CUD pricing will apply, regardless of the actual term of the CUD. Additionally, 3-year pre-paid CUDs are no longer available; only 1-year pre-paid CUDs are available.
All 1-year committed use discounts (CUDs) for Google Cloud VMware Engine ve1 SKUs are now End-of-Sale across the europe-west2 (London, UK) region. You can continue to use ve1 nodes with on-demand pricing. This change doesn't affect existing CUDs. You can also use ve2 nodes, including ve2 CUDs.
ve1 hardware End-of-Life (EoL) migration guide: You can now refer to the public
documentation to migrate workloads from retiring ve1 hardware. First-generation ve1 bare metal nodes are reaching the end of their useful life on a rolling basis. When your hardware is scheduled for retirement, you receive an EoL notification containing timelines and instructions to migrate your clusters.
You can now use Privileged Access Manager (PAM) to delete clusters in the private clouds.
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additional region:
europe-west4-a)Generally available (GA) with an allowlist: You can now migrate VMware management VMs from their host cluster to a different cluster within the same private cloud. This feature is available to select customers through an allowlist. To migrate management VMs, you must have at least two clusters in your private cloud, and the destination cluster must be a workload cluster. This operation transitions the target workload cluster to a management cluster, and the source management cluster becomes a workload cluster.
]]>Public Preview: You can now migrate VMware management VMs from their host cluster to a different cluster within the same private cloud. To migrate management VMs, you must have at least two clusters in your private cloud, and the destination cluster must be a workload cluster. This operation transitions the target workload cluster to a management cluster, and the source management cluster becomes a workload cluster.
]]>The VMware Engine ve2 node type is now available in the following
additional region:
us-west2-b)The VMware Engine ve2 node type is now available in the following
additional region:
europe-west9-b)The VMware Engine ve2 node type is now available in the following
additional region:
asia-northeast2)Stretched private clouds capable of hosting both ve1 and ve2 node-family
clusters are now available in the following regions:
australia-southeast1-a,
australia-southeast1-b)europe-west3-a, europe-west3-b)While a stretched private cloud can contain mixed node families, each individual stretched cluster must be comprised of nodes from the same family type.
]]>Private clouds capable of hosting both ve1 and ve2 node-family clusters are
available in the following additional regions:
europe-west2-a, europe-west2-b)southamerica-east1-a)us-south1-b)While a private cloud can contain mixed node families, each individual cluster must be comprised of nodes from the same family type.
]]>VMware Engine introduces enhancements to simplify using external NFS datastores. External NFS datastores let you scale storage independently of compute resources for your VMware workloads. You can use Filestore or Google Cloud NetApp Volumes as external NFS datastores for ESXi hosts in Google Cloud VMware Engine. For more information, see NFS datastores overview.
]]>VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the Milan, Italy (europe-west8-b) zone in the Milan, Italy, Europe region (europe-west8).
VMware Engine now supports private clouds with mixed node families (ve1 and ve2). While a private cloud can contain mixed node families, each cluster within that private cloud must contain nodes of the same type. This feature is available in the following regions and zones:
us-east4-a, us-east4-b)us-central1-a)northamerica-northeast1-a)australia-southeast1-a, australia-southeast1-b)europe-west3-a, europe-west3-b)southamerica-west1-b)VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the Dallas, Texas, North America region (us-south1-b).
VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the Tokyo, Japan region (asia-northeast1-a).
VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the London, England, Europe (europe-west2-b) zone in the London, England, Europe region (europe-west2).
VMware Engine ve1 nodes are now available in the Mumbai, India (asia-south1-b) zone in the Mumbai region (asia-south1).
This is to notify you about upcoming changes in licensing model with Google Cloud VMware Engine following Broadcom's recent announcement to move to a "bring your own" subscription model for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
You can renew or add additional capacity of VMware Engine nodes with VCF-license included until October 15, 2025. After that, Google Cloud will not be able to sell new VMware Engine VCF license-included nodes. You can buy new VMware Engine BYOL nodes and use them with "bring your own" VCF subscriptions (purchased by you from Broadcom) for new capacity after October 15, 2025.
For any questions, please reach out to your Google Cloud sales team, who can help review your specific scenarios, discuss the implications of these changes for your organization, and help you manage this transition.
For more details, see the October 3, 2025 service announcement.
]]>VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the following additional region:
me-central1, v-zone-a)All 3-year Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) for VMware Engine ve1 SKUs are now End-of-Sale across all regions where the service is available.
The following specific 3-year commitments are impacted by this change:
Refer to VMware Engine node types for the regional availability of ve1 SKUs.
VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the following additional region and zone:
europe-west8-a).australia-southeast2-b) zone in the Melbourne, Australia region (australia-southeast2).You can now use Privileged Access Manager (PAM) to accelerate the deletion of "soft deleted" private clouds. For more information, see the documentation on how to delete a private cloud.
]]>VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the London, England, Europe region (europe-west2-a).
VMware Engine v2 nodes are now available in the Santiago, Chile (southamerica-west1-b) zone in the Santiago region (southamerica-west1) region.
VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the Dammam, KSA (me-central2) region.
VMware Engine ve2 nodes are now available in the São Paulo, Brazil (southamerica-east1-c) zone in the São Paulo region (southamerica-east1).
When upgrading to Windows Server 2022 or newer images on your GCVE private clouds, you can use a combination of Windows Server BYOL for Windows Server 2019 and earlier images and on-demand licensing for Google-provided Windows Server 2022. For more information, see Use a combination of BYOL and on-demand Windows Server licenses from Google.
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