VCF for Operations: – From Infrastructure to Costs

VCF for Operations: – From Infrastructure to Costs

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It’s time to look even deeper and see how @VMware Cloud Foundation for Operations handles tracking what’s happening inside an application.

Imagine you’re cooking a big dinner for the family. You have different ingredients, pots, pans and spices. Every element has to be perfectly in sync for the dish to come out perfectly. It’s the same with apps-we have to keep track of every ingredient (i.e. component) and make sure everything works together flawlessly.

We’ve been publishing here for a long time about advanced mechanisms for detecting anomalies, failures and finding the root cause of problems in applications. In recent episodes, we focused on IT infrastructure. Today we’ll take a look and see how to connect that world to the application itself.

Often when talking to CEOs, IT executives, or those most interested in the high availability of their application, i.e. the business audience, the question is asked, “Can we really see our entire application, including the IT infrastructure and its SLA, in one tool and on one dashboard?

Can I see what the cost of this application is?

Can I, from this one panel, go to the details and see all the components it is made of?”

The answer is: YES!

There is a bit of work involved, although most of the links between elements are created automatically. We, as INDEVOPS, just help create the appropriate management views and, if needed, provide the necessary plug-ins to VCF for Operations to look even further (beyond the horizon of individual IT teams).

In this case, we look further inside the application thanks to Flopsar Technology’s solution, and then we pass all events to @VCF Operations, where the finished, collected elements of the application are already there: IT infrastructure, operating systems, databases, application engines, network flows, logs from each of these layers and other elements.

 

But what about the cost of such an application?

Once we have a full collection of its components, the costs can be automatically calculated based on the data collected in VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). We can also adjust these values, taking into account actual IT expenses – from licenses, to hardware, to electricity, to racks and other resources.

This approach is crucial for business. Why? Because it gives full transparency – the company knows exactly what it is paying for and what SLAs it is receiving, and IT becomes a reliable partner for it.

We, the INDEVOPS team of experts, are here to make sure you can rest easy and enjoy uninterrupted availability of your applications.

❤️‍ INDEVOPS 

🚀 INDEVOPS – We support your company’s Long Term Technology Goals! 🚀

🚀 INDEVOPS – We support your company’s Long Term Technology Goals! 🚀

In today's fast-paced technology world, implementing flexible and efficient IT solutions is critical to your organization's success. INDEVOPS supports your long-term technology goals by combining automation, monitoring and analytics of IT processes.

In today’s fast-paced technology world, implementing flexible and efficient IT solutions is critical to your organization’s success. INDEVOPS supports your long-term technology goals by combining automation, monitoring and analytics of IT processes.

With a DevOps approach, we are able to increase team collaboration, reduce analysis time and streamline IT operations, allowing you to respond to changes faster and providing greater control over your infrastructure and applications.

What is needed for this?

As it is in a good restaurant, first of all you need the best quality products. In our case, we use @VMware Cloud Foundation – a private cloud. We also see on the horizon that this private cloud will soon amaze the world. In addition to the best ingredients, you need the best cooks who are experienced and have good taste. We know the recipe and have the good sense to make the ingredients (@VCF) into a finished dish under our customers. Does this recipe work? Yes, this is confirmed by our reliable implementations in various companies.

Our solutions not only save time and resources, but also lay the foundation for the long-term growth of your business. With our DevOps methodology, you can automate routine processes, monitor applications and infrastructure in real time, predict application behavior and optimize resource consumption. Our services are tailored to your individual needs, allowing you to scale your IT solutions according to your organization’s growing demands.

If you want to improve operational efficiency, increase application availability and gain full control over changes to applications built on the cloud, @INDEVOPS is the partner to help you achieve these goals.

We offer comprehensive support at every stage of cooperation – from requirements analysis, to project implementation, to continuous process optimization.

Don’t wait, give yourself an edge in the market with @INDEVOPS! 🌟

🎉 Happy New Year from Indevops Team 🎉

🎉 Happy New Year from Indevops Team 🎉

Dear Customers!

🎉 On the occasion of the New Year 2025, we wish You,
That your systems stand as steady
as our coffee cups on our desks – always
full and never turning over! ☕

May your projects develop
with the speed of the latest processors,
and error resolution be as rare
rare as snow in July.❄️

May your monitoring systems
detect signs of impending trouble,
and their built-in orchestration prevent them effectively. 😁

Thank you for being with us and we look forward to
for further fruitful cooperation in the coming year.💻
Happy New Year 2025! 🥂

INDEVOPS Team

Please visit our website indevops.com – we promise you will always find something inspiring there! 🌟

 

🎉  Merry Christmas to you.  Wishes the INDEVOPS Team 🎉

🎉 Merry Christmas to you. Wishes the INDEVOPS Team 🎉

🎄 Dear Customers 🎄

On the occasion of Christmas, we wish you as much joy as a code bug tester has,
as much peace of mind as a DevOps engineer has after a successful deployment,
and as much success as we have requests for our products! 🚀

In the past year, we provided you with Indevops Addons – our management packs that work as flawlessly as the Christmas borscht with ravioli tastes.
Thank you for your trust and patience.
Thank you for another year together!

We wish you a time full of optimized processes, fast deployments and stable servers.
And if something goes wrong – remember that you always have support in us! 🛠️

🎉 Merry Christmas to you 🎉. Wishes the INDEVOPS Team

💻🐾 Christmas cheer with INDEVOPS and furry assistants!

💻🐾 Christmas cheer with INDEVOPS and furry assistants!

At Indevops, we combine the world of advanced technology with the warmth of our furry pals! Our pets, who accompany us during our daily DevOps challenges, are true champions of the holiday spirit. 🎄✨

At work, they help us in their own unique way:

🐾 They debug stress – one look is enough to relieve tension,

🐾 They foster creativity – the purr of a cat or a dog wagging its tail inspires us to new ideas,

🐾 They test equipment – the keyboard is the perfect place for them to nap!

🐾 They make Indevops history with us – Martin’s hamster Marcin Rzepa, is a real legend! 😊

Now, at Christmas time, our pets go into full integration mode with the Christmas tree, presents and winter atmosphere. Who better to take care of the code and gingerbread than a dog? How about a cat treating the Christmas lights as his new toy? 😄
Well, and let’s remember that on Christmas Eve all pets speak with a human voice. It will be interesting to see what they will have to tell us 😉.

We would love to see how your pets put you in the holiday mood! Show off photos of your “assistants”! 📸

What do you do when you have an unusual task from your boss on reporting, connect to monitor something that seems impossible, or want at the time of failure to have known failures automatically fixed?

What do you do when you have an unusual task from your boss on reporting, connect to monitor something that seems impossible, or want at the time of failure to have known failures automatically fixed?

🚨 @VMware Cloud Foundation for Operations is a great tool for monitoring IT applications, but our boss gets an unusual task of “monitoring IoT devices.”

1️⃣ We wonder what the data is for?

The answer? We’re getting into advanced AI/ML of the entire product development cycle with volume. We already have most of the data in the Data Center on our applications (customer demand, production capacity, supply chain), but it would be useful to monitor the reliability of production equipment and quantity data from machines. We already have a scalable multidimensional tool in our organization that understands metrics and logs data, namely @VCF for Operations.

2️⃣ Is it possible to upload data there? Is it compatible with the license?

Yes, it is in accordance with the license. We can upload such data without incurring additional fees. To do it then…,but hmm, how to do it?

To help us comes We @INDEVOPS team, who will help you without hassle in this task. Thanks for being there 😉.

The boss is satisfied, and so are we, however, there is another task facing our organization. Reporting on various things.

🤷‍♂️ Do we IT employees like to do reports and do it manually?

Not really, oh no. What can be done then?
   

We come up with an idea. We have all the data from IoT devices from IT infrastructure to applications in one place. In our heart of help @VCF for Operations, then how about generating reports from there?

Bingo!!!

Here’s an idea.

There’s a lot of data, but we’re a little short of an idea of how to make a beautiful template out of it, based on which periodically, e.g. once a month, a report would be delivered to the relevant recipients. The light goes on: since the guys from @INDEVOPS  helped with IoT monitoring, let’s call them. They will help us here too!

This quarter, IT gave a little blurb (a small real-life example). 😁

Christmas is coming, and as it is with Christmas everyone wants to be Santa Claus. Let’s assume that we and our company provide. many attractive gift ideas for these Santas. Unfortunately, there were so many of them this week that our online sales applications proved to be inefficient, unscalable. A large portion of the Santas went elsewhere. The boss already knows, the management already knows, and we downstairs also already know there is trouble.

What can we do in the future to prevent this?

We can deploy VMware Cloud Foudantion private cloud with advanced Security and Load Balancing. On top of that, regardless of whether the application layer is running on VMs or k8s, we can detect more Santa Clauses with @VCF for Operations. Then after detecting such an event, pass the task to @VCF for Automation to increase the number of application engines.

Great, but after all, in our company there is a wait for everything, a mass of applications, Security permits. All this will pass us by!

Well, no, because you can design all these elements once, and then enjoy together with the Santas who will receive their gifts.

As always, the @INDEVOPS  team will help you with this task 🙂 🙂

👉 Ensure continuous monitoring of your IT environment!

📩 Get in touch with us and learn about solutions perfect for your Santas!