VCF Operations Fleet Management: What You Need to Know

This article explains VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations Fleet Management, a capability in VCF 9.x that centralizes operational functions like identity, licensing, certificates, passwords, lifecycle, and visibility across multiple VCF instances. It highlights the distinction between the Fleet Management capability and the standalone Fleet Management Appliance, which was replaced in VCF 9.1 by services within VCF Management Services. The article covers scope, control plane, version guardrails, operational impact on change control and lifecycle planning, and adoption advice, emphasizing treating Fleet Management as an operating model rather than just a UI feature.