IBM Cloud’s VCF as a Service: Avoid Issues, Boost Efficiency

IBM Cloud for VCF as a Service, VMware infrastructure management made easier. It manages, and you deploy.

What is VCF as a Service?

A managed service called IBM Cloud for VCF as a Service offers a stack based on VMware Cloud Director (VCD), allowing companies to create cloud computing environments that meet their needs.

Through a highly available management plane, IBM manages the configuration, capacity management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, and security of the underlying VMware infrastructure, allowing you to swiftly deploy your VMware-based cloud computing environments, regardless of whether you choose a single-tenant or multitenant model.

You can buy on-demand compute resources at the vCPU, RAM, and storage level, or you can buy compute resources at the host level, utilising several IBM Bare Metal Servers and profiles.

IBM’s multitenant consumption model allows you to begin with as little as one virtual machine (VM) with one virtual CPU, one gigabyte of RAM, a 20-gigabyte vSAN, and one network efficiency edge. The monthly price for on-demand services starts at USD 127.

Advantages

Make managing VMware easier

By giving IBM control for the monitoring, patching, and maintenance of the VMware management plane and underlying hardware, you can concentrate on your business requirements.

Increased cost savings

Choose compute resources that are suited to your particular workloads to save money. You can better control your expenses by reserving capacity for continuous performance or purchasing on-demand for transient workloads.

A quicker time to market

Reduce migration risks and achieve total automation on the most highly rated, secure public cloud environment to speed your time to market for modernising and moving current VMware workloads to IBM Cloud.

Important characteristics

Multiple Tenants

It takes less than 20 minutes to spin up new virtual data center settings. You can select between a monthly reserved billing plan or on-demand billing with no upfront commitment.

Single-tenant

By choosing from a variety of host profiles based on the CPU, memory, and storage capacity needed to execute specific VMware applications, you may resize your deployments whenever you choose.

Adaptable choices for performance and consumption

For optimal flexibility, investigate a variety of consumption choices for single-tenant (dedicated infrastructure) or multitenant (on-demand vCPU, RAM, and storage resources). Options for storage performance include vSAN and NFS (0.25, 2, 4, and 10 IOPs/GB).

High accessibility

Use IBM Cloud to keep an eye on, patch, and maintain the underlying hardware and VMware management plane (including NSX-T, vSAN, vCenter Server, vSphere, and VMware Cloud Director) to a 99.99% availability SLA.

Simple deployment using APIs or a portal

Utilise the VCF as a Service console or REST API to easily manage the director site and virtual data centre lifecycle.

Self-service backup

Learn about built-in backup features that guarantee corporate resilience. Select from industry-leading backup options for your IBM Cloud VMware resources.

Prices and special offers

You can receive up to $200,000 in product-specific IBM Cloud Migration credits and 50% off the regular list price with this limited-time promotion for one and three years (valid till March 31, 2025).