How does VCF versioning correspond to vSphere?

vSphere is part of the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) set of software components that Broadcom/VMware is using now by default to refer to versioning.

While they are keeping the VMware vSphere versioning, they are presenting it together in all new communications as VCF. For future releases, vSphere and VCF cadences will be aligned.

This is how the versioning of vSphere corresponds to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) :

vSphere 7.0 Update 2 = vSphere 7.0 Update 2 or later / VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.3
vSphere 8.0 Update 1 = vSphere 8.0 Update 1 / VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 5.0

Note that this applies to all the versioning references of vSphere:

• Preparing to install on vsphere
• VMware vSphere CSI Driver Operator requirements
  

For the full matrix published by VMware by Broadcom, refer to this link.