What is VMware Cloud Foundation as a service?

IBM Cloud for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service (VCFaaS) is a managed service that delivers a VMware Cloud Director (VCD) based stack that enables businesses to build cloud computing environments that support their business needs. Whether opting for a single-tenant or multitenant model, IBM handles the configuration, capacity management, monitoring, patching, upgrades, and security of the underlying VMware infrastructure, through a highly available management plane, so you can quickly deploy your VMware-based cloud computing environments. You can purchase compute resources at the host level, leveraging several IBM Bare Metal Server and profiles, or on-demand compute resources at the vCPU, RAM, and Storage level.

Features

• **Multitenant: **Spin up new virtual data center environments in less than 20 minutes. Choose from on-demand billing with no upfront commitment, or a monthly reserved billing option.
• **Single-tenant: **Resize your deployments at any time by selecting from a range of host profiles by CPU, memory, and storage capacity required to run targeted VMware workloads.
• **Flexible consumption & performance options: **Explore a wide range of consumption options for single-tenant (dedicated infrastructure) or multitenant (on-demand vCPU, RAM, Storage resources) for maximum flexibility. Storage performance options include NFS (0.25, 2, 4 & 10 IOPs/GB) and vSAN.
• **High availability: **Leverage IBM Cloud to monitor, patch, and maintain the VMware management plane (VMware Cloud Director, NSX-T, vSAN, vCenter Server, vSphere, etc.) and underlying hardware to a 99.99% availability SLA.
• **Easy deployment through portal or APIs: **Seamlessly manage the lifecycle of director sites and virtual data centers when using the VCF as a Service console or REST API.
• **Self-service backup: **Discover natively integrated backup capabilities, ensuring business resiliency. Choose from market-leading backup solutions for your VMware resources on IBM Cloud.

Benefits

• **Simplify VMware management: **Focus on your business needs by offloading the monitoring, patching and maintenance of the VMware management plane and underlying hardware to IBM.
• **Improve cost savings: **Realize cost savings by opting for compute resources tailored to your unique workloads. Reserve capacity for continuous performance or buy on-demand for ephemeral workloads, you have the flexibility to manage your costs better. 
• **Faster time to market: **Expedite time to market for migrating and modernizing existing VMware workloads to IBM Cloud by reducing migration risks and achieving complete automation on the highest rated-secure public cloud environment.