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IBM Cloud for VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service (VCF as a Service) provides the VMware Cloud Director platform as a managed service. IBM performs the configuration, hosting, operations, and lifecycle management of the VMware software so you can quickly deploy your VMware-based cloud computing environments. Compute resources are available as either dedicated or multitenant hosts that leverage IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers. Dedicated single-tenant VMware sites provide extra isolation and support multiple host configuration options to support flexible workload requirements.

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Compare VCF as a Service tenancy models

	VCF as a Service Multitenant	VCF as a Service Single-tenant
Recommended for	Workloads and applications that aren’t running 24×7 or that require cloud bursting during peak demands. Users that want to get started quickly by deploying on infrastructure created by IBM. Users that prefer a Pay-As-You-Go usage, starting small and scaling up as needed. Users that need capacity reservation smaller than 1 host. Use cases such as cost-effective standby disaster recovery site or off-site VMware backups.	Workloads and applications that require consistent performance. Workloads that require additional security provided by isolated, dedicated infrastructure. Workloads that might benefit from optimized host configurations (memory-intensive or storage-intensive). Users that want flexibility to manage infrastructure capacity themselves.
Charges and minimum requirements	From $127 per month on-demand CPU, RAM, and storage, with a shared network edge	From $9,680 per month Minimum 2 servers (7 servers for vSAN profiles) 2 hosts (2-Socket 32 Cores and 192 GB RAM) 24 TB of shared storage Minimum 1 virtual data center (VDC) with a Medium Dedicated Edge
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Infrastructure capacity	Managed by IBM	Managed by your organization
Availability	The VCF as a Service Multitenant offering has a 99.99% availability SLA.	The VCF as a Service Single-tenant offering has a 99.99% availability SLA.
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Getting started with VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service Single-tenant

For a dedicated infrastructure and built to order VMware environment, you can create a virtual data center in a single-tenant Cloud Director site, fully managed and maintained by IBM. You pay-as-you-go with monthly charges for the dedicated VMware infrastructure components (bare metal servers, storage, networking, and add-on services). You can grow and shrink the VMware deployment based on needs.

After the customized VMware environment creation is completed, you access the environment through VMware Cloud Director and deploy virtual data centers, vApps, and VMs, according to the size of your environment.

To get started, create a Cloud Director site on VCFaaS Single-tenant. Learn more

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Getting started with VCF as a Service Multitenant

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For a flexible, pay-per-use consumption model, you can create a virtual data center in a multitenant Cloud Director site. It’s built on an infrastructure deployed and managed by IBM and it’s the fastest way to get started. You can start small and grow as needed by adding CPUs, RAM, and storage. IBM is fully maintaining the available infrastructure capacity.

To get started, create a virtual data center on VCF as a Service Multitenant.

Getting started with VCF as a Service Single-tenant

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For a dedicated infrastructure and built-to-order VMware environment, you can create a virtual data center (VDC) in a single-tenant Cloud Director site, to be fully managed and maintained by IBM. You Pay-As-You-Go the monthly charges for the dedicated VMware infrastructure components (bare metal servers, storage, networking, and add-on services). You can grow and shrink the VMware deployment based on your requirements.

After the customized VMware environment is created, you can access it through VMware Cloud Director and deploy VDCs, vApps, and VMs, according to the size of your environment.

To get started, create a Cloud Director site on VCF as a Service Single-tenant.

For more information, see the VMware Cloud Foundation as a Service documentation.

VCF as a Service Multitenant	VCF as a Service Single-tenant
User-operated workloads IBM-operated capacity management IBM-operated virtualization software IBM-installed virtualization software	User-operated workloads User-operated capacity management IBM-operated virtualization software IBM-installed virtualization software
IBM-managed VMware Cloud Director instance, offering virtual data centers with cost-effective and flexible capacity and scalability.	IBM-managed VMware Cloud Director single-tenant infrastructure running on dedicated workload host with scalable compute, network, and storage.
Recommended for Pay for specific usage and need (precise GB of memory and vCPU) Start small and scale up as you need Standby disaster recovery site Cloud bursting during peak demands Customers who want to offload the maintenance of the VMware® environment and its capacity management to IBM®	Recommended for Workloads that use dedicated infrastructure and require consistent performance Optimized host configuration for the use case. For example: balanced, compute-intensive, or storage-intensive. Customers who want to manage capacity at the host level Customers who want to offload the maintenance of the VMware environment to IBM
Minimum requirements Not applicable. On-demand CPU, RAM, and storage, with a shared network edge	Minimum requirements 24 TB of shared storage Minimum of one virtual data center with a medium dedicated edge
Operated capacity management
Powered by IBM advanced automation	Powered by IBM advanced automation
Storage options Not applicable. Managed by IBM, NFS or vSAN™ storage	Storage options NFS or vSAN™ storage
Minimum number of ESXi servers Not applicable. Managed by IBM	Minimum number of ESXi servers 2 per cluster
Maximum number of ESXi servers Not applicable. Managed by IBM	Maximum number of ESXi servers 25 per cluster
Cloud automated multizone deployment Not applicable. Managed by IBM	Cloud automated multizone deployment Multizone management plane Single-zone workload clusters