VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 is designed to meet the challenges faced by VMware Cloud Service Providers (VCSPs) like rising operational costs, the need for infrastructure optimization, and financial transparency among clients. The new release includes significant cost-focused enhancements for infrastructure economics and operational efficiency, driving lower total cost of ownership (TCO) as well as increased margins.

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Let’s explore the key cost benefits that VCF 9.1 offers VCSPs.

1. Reducing TCO through Infrastructure Optimization

VCF 9.1 allows you to run more workloads at lower physical resources, thereby improving the return on investment (ROI) and lowering the cost of running per workload.

• Rack More Workloads: Use the Enhanced NVMe Memory Tiering feature to increase density without sacrificing performance.  You can reduce server costs by up to 40% and protect against DRAM volatility while deferring hardware refresh.
• Lower Storage Cost: Extended vSAN Dedup and Compression improvements reduce storage TCO by up to a 39% vs external arrays. This moves data reduction ratios from around 1.5x toward 8.0x, maximizing storage density while drastically lowering CapEx and shrinking your physical storage footprint.
• Reduce Operational Overhead: A unified VCF stack minimizes administrative complexity, tool sprawl, and integration effort. Features like ESX Live Patching for TPM-enabled hosts and vCenter Quick Patch help significantly reduce or even eliminate downtime during maintenance.

These capabilities not only allow for much faster vulnerability remediation, but also enable the elimination of host evacuation, avoiding complex patch planning and downtime penalties that can directly affect your bottom line.

2. A New Way to Drive Revenue through Service Expansion

In addition to delivering cost optimization, VCF 9.1 helps unlock new monetization opportunities and greater customer value.

• Cost Transparency to Customers: New chargeback enhancements, like Auto Bill PDF Export & Email, Tenant Report and Alerts, and Upfront Pricing provide visibility into usage/charges to your end customers. This helps build trust and promotes responsible usage with upfront pricing visibility prior to deployment.
• Monetize New Workloads: VCF 9.1 empowers you to offer a more diverse portfolio of billable services from IaaS, through PaaS, and leading into AI. Capabilities such as Private AI, Kubernetes, and enhanced security enable providers to unlock new recurring revenue streams while increasing average revenue per customer.
• Accelerated Deployment: The platform is designed for scalable efficiency, including a 38% lower TCO for running VKS and VMs and a 70% faster time-to-revenue for cluster deployment.

3. Strengthening Margins with Financial Control and Chargeback

By having this visibility and governance into your environment with VCF 9.1, you can make sure each resource consumed is priced properly based on true cost-to-serve, which helps in keeping your profit margins intact.

• Remove Cost Blind Spots: Extend cost allocation from just VMs to the complete infrastructure stack (clusters, hosts, and data centers) with additional cost drivers. This allows you to track previously untracked or additional expenses, minimizing revenue loss and facilitating chargeback.
• Enhance Chargeback Accuracy: With deep, granular visibility into tenant consumption, you can reduce the guesswork involved in chargebacks and exercise greater margin control. Customizable cost ratio will enhance alignment between infrastructure consumption costs and real CPU and memory usage, making it easier to overlay different pricing schemes on a heterogeneous mix of tenant workload types.
• Evolve FinOps: Comprehensive VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (VKS) Cost Management delivers costing capabilities across your entire Kubernetes ecosystem. By enforcing stronger financial governance, you can reduce billing disputes and encourage responsible, consumption-based usage.

VCF 9.1 is a strategic financial tool that modernizes your platform and service delivery, helping you maintain competitive pricing while protecting and growing your margins.

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