Monitoring Cost, Capacity, and Health of VMware Cloud Foundation

VCF Operations offers full-stack visibility into the VMware Cloud Foundation based private clouds you manage. This includes the cloud components, infrastructure, virtual machines (VMs), containers and applications. VCF Operations provides continuous health updates, performance optimization, as well as efficient cost and capacity management.

● The demonstration will cover the following:
● Full Stack visibility and health across your VCF clouds
● Application and container monitoring
● Cost analytics, including TCO and potential savings
● Predictive capacity management with actionable rightsizing and reclamation tools

In this presentation, Kelcey Lemon from Broadcom demonstrates how VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations provides comprehensive monitoring and management tools for private clouds. The platform offers full-stack visibility, allowing users to monitor the health of their cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines (VMs), containers, and applications. VCF Operations consolidates various diagnostic tools into a single interface, enabling users to track performance, identify underutilized resources, and address capacity shortfalls through predictive analytics. The platform also helps with cost management by offering insights into total cost of ownership (TCO), potential savings, and resource reclamation, such as deleting idle VMs or old snapshots. Additionally, it provides compliance monitoring, ensuring that the infrastructure adheres to industry standards like HIPAA and CIS, while also tracking sustainability metrics like power consumption and carbon footprint.

The presentation also highlights the platform’s capacity management features, which use historical data and predictive analytics to forecast future resource demands. VCF Operations offers tools for right-sizing VMs, helping users optimize performance and reduce costs by adjusting CPU and memory allocations. The platform also includes reclamation tools that allow users to reclaim unused resources, further optimizing capacity and reducing operational expenses. The unified dashboard provides a centralized view of the entire cloud environment, enabling users to quickly identify and address issues, such as capacity shortages or performance bottlenecks. Overall, VCF Operations aims to streamline cloud management by offering a comprehensive, user-friendly interface that integrates health monitoring, cost management, and capacity planning.