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VCF Operations

The platform's operations (formerly Aria): monitoring, capacity, costs and compliance of the private cloud — standard in VCF.

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01 · What it is

VCF Operations, made clear.

VCF Operations (the evolution of Aria Operations) is the private cloud's dashboard: health and performance with predictive analytics, capacity planning with what-if scenarios, costs and showback per project, compliance and configuration drift. It's included in VCF: the value is already there — it just needs to be put to work.

Predittivo
the baselines learned: the anomaly seen before the classic alarm
What-if
'what if I add 200 VMs?': the answer with numbers, before the purchase
Showback
the cost per VM and per project: those who consume, see
VCF Operations
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02 · How to use it well

The things that make the difference.

The governance

IT management & FinOpsthose who decide with numbers
Health & performance
Capacity & scenarios
Costs & showback
today · tomorrow · how much
Compliance & driftthe compliant platform stays compliant
Complete VCF telemetryfrom the iron to the VM
The platform that tells its own story

Dashboards per role

The NOC, the capacity manager and the CFO see different views of the same data: each their own dashboard.

Continuous rightsizing

The obese and forgotten VMs flushed out: the capacity recovered before buying more.

Costs that make accountable

Showback per department changes behaviors: the private cloud with a bill.

Automatic compliance

The baselines (hardening, config) verified continuously: the drift flagged, not discovered.

03 · In depth

Capacity, costs and compliance in one panel

VCF Operations (formerly Aria/vROps) observes the stack: the metrics with machine learning do capacity planning (when does the cluster run out? what happens if I add 50 VMs?), the right-sizing finds obese and zombie VMs, the costing attributes the costs per VM/department (showback), the compliance packs measure the drift from the baselines (CIS, PCI), the troubleshooting workbench correlates metrics, events and logs for the root cause.

  • Capacity forecast — the 'when it runs out' computed: the purchase planned, not urgent
  • Right-sizing — the oversized VMs found: the cores recovered
  • What-if — the scenario simulated before buying: the project with numbers
  • Showback — the cost per VM and department: IT that talks prices
  • Compliance pack — CIS/PCI measured continuously: the drift you can see
  • Workbench — metrics+logs+events correlated: the root cause in one view
04 · Numbers and lifecycle

The numbers that matter.

20-30%
the typical cores recovered with right-sizing
12+
months of capacity forecast
€/VM
the cost visible: the informed decisions
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one panel for performance, capacity, compliance
Operations is where the TCO gets recovered: dashboards, right-sizing and executive reports set up by us — the infrastructure with numbers.
05 · Use cases

Where it really pays off.

Capacity planning

The purchases guided by scenarios, not by fears.

Cost governance

The private cloud with public-cloud numbers.

Platform health

The problem seen before the ticket.

A platform without numbers is governed by feelings: Operations already has them — we put them on stage.