VCF Operations

VCF Operations is the central management plane of VMware Cloud Foundation 9. Fleet Manager for lifecycle, identity, certificates and observability, replaces both SDDC Manager and Aria Operations.

Console for the whole fleet

Aria products consolidated

Days auto-renew certs

24/7

Health monitoring

Features

The Management Brain of VCF 9

Fleet-level management for the entire VCF 9 stack

Fleet Manager

Central management of multiple VCF instances with dependency-aware lifecycle.

Lifecycle Management

Zero-downtime upgrades, patches and compliance drift detection across the stack.

Identity Broker (vIDB)

SAML/OIDC federation with external IDPs, replaces vIDM.

Certificate Management

Auto-renewal 60 days before expiry, multiple CAs, external cert import.

License Manager

Unified subscription licensing, one file for the entire VCF stack.

Health & Logs

Integrated monitoring, diagnostics and log analysis (formerly Aria Operations for Logs).

Introduction

What is VCF Operations?

VCF Operations is the management heart of VCF 9. It provides Fleet Manager for multi-instance lifecycle, Identity Broker for federation, Certificate Manager for PKI and unified licensing: all through a single console.

Consolidation

Replacing SDDC Manager & Aria Suite

VCF 9 consolidates five products: SDDC Manager (lifecycle), Aria Operations (monitoring), Aria Operations for Logs, Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) and parts of vIDM. These are absorbed into VCF Operations with Fleet Manager as the central controller.

SDDC Manager -> Fleet Manager (dependency-aware)
Aria Operations -> built into VCF Operations
Aria Logs -> native log analysis
ASLCM -> Fleet Manager (no more separate lifecycle)
vIDM -> VCF Identity Broker (vIDB)

Management

Unified Lifecycle & Licensing

One plane for all Day-2 operations. Updates are separated into Fleet-level (identity, automation) and Instance-level (ESXi, vCenter, NSX) for independent lifecycle. Licensing is a single-file subscription, no more 25-hex keys per component.

Fleet-level vs Instance-level updates separately
Auto-renewing certificates across multiple CAs
Single-file subscription license for the entire stack
Native health, performance and log analytics

Services

Our VCF Operations Services

We support deployment, configuration and optimization of VCF Operations, including converging existing Aria Suite environments to VCF 9.

Fleet Manager design for multi-site scenarios
vIDB integration with Active Directory / Okta / Azure AD
Aria -> VCF Operations convergence (see [migration](../migration/))
Custom dashboards and alerting

Benefits

Why VCF Operations?

Unified Management

One console replaces SDDC Manager + Aria Operations + Aria Logs + ASLCM.

Fleet Governance

Consistent management across multiple VCF instances, data centers and regions.

Faster Upgrades

Dependency-aware Fleet Manager dramatically reduces upgrade complexity.

Unified Licensing

One subscription file for the entire stack, the end of scattered 25-hex keys.

Use Cases

VCF Operations Use Cases

Multi-site Fleet Management

Multiple VCF instances across sites with central governance.

Zero-downtime Upgrades

Rolling updates with dependency awareness and automated rollback.

Aria Convergence

Migration from existing Aria Suite to VCF Operations.

Day-2 Operations

Compliance, drift detection and health management as a single source.

Ready for VCF Operations?

We support deployment, Aria convergence and Fleet Manager configuration. Contact us for a consultation.

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