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name: vmwaresolutions-caveonix_considerations
title: Caveonix RiskForesight on IBM Cloud overview
description: Caveonix RiskForesight™ on IBM Cloud® can help to manage cyberrisk and compliance risk with proactive monitoring and automated defense controls to protect against threats and to meet industry or government regulations. Caveonix RiskForesight on IBM Cloud is a non-IBM product that is offered under terms and conditions from Caveonix, not IBM.
last-updated: 2026-03-19
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> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?format=markdown
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# Caveonix RiskForesight on IBM Cloud overview
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As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
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Caveonix RiskForesight™ on IBM Cloud® can help to manage cyberrisk and compliance risk with proactive monitoring and automated defense controls to protect against threats and to meet industry or government regulations. Caveonix RiskForesight on IBM Cloud is a non-IBM product that is offered under terms and conditions from Caveonix, not IBM.
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CONTENT:

When you delete a VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instance, the following components are released sequentially:
1. All deployed services
2. NFS storage
3. The Support fee
4. VMware® product licenses
5. VMware ESXi™ servers
6. Subnets
7. VLANs

The current Caveonix RiskForesight version that is installed is 5.2.7.
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A Caveonix RiskForesight license is valid for five years. Ordering Caveonix RiskForesight for VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances, Regulated Workloads, and Security and Compliance Readiness Bundle instances differs. For more information, see [Licenses and fees](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-caveonix_considerations&format=markdown#caveonix_considerations-tech-specs-license-fee).

## Technical specifications for Caveonix RiskForesight
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For more information about resource requirements and capacity checking for some services, see [Resource requirements for services](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vc_addingservices&format=markdown#vc_addingservices-resource-requirements).

The following components are ordered and included in the Caveonix RiskForesight service.

### VCF for Classic - Automated resources
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* CPU - 8 CPUs
* RAM - 32 GB
* Disk - 100 GB

### Network
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A dedicated private subnet with 32 IP addresses is ordered.

### Licenses and fees
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A Caveonix RiskForesight license key is ordered for each instance of the service.

For VCF for Classic - Automated instances, you are charged for the number of per-VM licenses that you choose at installation. You can select 10 - 25,000 VMs to license.

For Regulated Workloads or Security and Compliance Readiness Bundle instances, you are charged for a per-host license for every host within the instance. You are not charged for per-VM licenses.

For Regulated Workloads or Security and Compliance Readiness Bundle instances, the host-based licenses are hidden. Caveonix RiskForesight is deployed with a 25,000 VM key. You do not need to upgrade.

Caveonix RiskForesight licenses that are ordered separately from the Resources page are not per-host. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not order new Caveonix RiskForesight licenses and apply the key to your Caveonix RiskForesight service on Regulated Workloads or Security and Compliance Readiness Bundle instances. If you order in this way, the following things can occur:

* Provide less coverage than when the license was initially deployed.
* Result in you being charged twice for Caveonix RiskForesight licenses because your initial license cannot be canceled. Therefore, you pay for both per-host and per-VM licensing.

## Related links
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* [Ordering Caveonix RiskForesight](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-caveonix_ordering&format=markdown)
* [Managing Caveonix RiskForesight](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-managingcaveonix&format=markdown)
* [Getting help and support](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-trbl_support&format=markdown)