Comparing VMware VCF and VVF Licensing Models

The Aria Suite and the new licensing model from VMware by Broadcom.

In the VCF license, you get all the Aria products in Enterprise versions, meaning Aria Suite Enterprise.

This includes:

• Lifecyclemanager
• VMware Identity manager (Workspace ONE)
• Aria Automation (former vRealize Automation)
• Aria Operations ( former vRealize Operations Manager)
• Aria Operations for Logs ( former vRealize LogInsight)
• Aria Operations for Networks (former vRealize Network Insight)

In the VVF license there is Aria Suite Standard.

This includes:

• Lifecyclemanager
• Aria Operations
• Aria Operations for Logs

So what is the difference , and what is the value?

This means going from VVF license to VCF, apart from the obvious VCF functionality, also gives you all that the Lifecycle Suite Enterprise has to offer.

We know Operations Manager and Loginsight from earlier, but new centralized functionality in Lifecyclemanager, as well as Automation license and Network Insight, products that was quite pricey before this change is what makes this interresting.

Aria Automation integrates with all of the VCF functionality as well as support for Ansible, Terraform, Github, IPAM, Tanzu/kubernets and a lot more. Separate orchestrator engine for workflows and Cloud templates (blueprints) to easily create new applications from a central portal deploying either to your private or public cloud.Can be managed either as a service in VMware Cloud or in your datacenter.

The Network insight gives you almost instantly an understanding how your traffic flows in your datacenter by activation of netflow. You will see that you have maybe 90% east-west traffic, and only 10% North-South. It will also give source-destination with port info, either by vm or a group of vms, that will give you the basis of what rules to set for specific applications and help you set micro-segmentation rules in your distributed firewall. A valuable tool in your micro-segmentation project.