This article is contunuation of the previouse one: VCF Fleet Basic
Once you’ve deployed that basic VCF instance with Ops and Automation, you can scale out to multiple VCF instances.
On the icture below you can see several VCF instances, each with:
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Its own workload domain components – vCenter, NSX, and storage.
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Its own management domain where required.
The key idea is that VCF Operations and Automation act as a common platform to manage all of these instances:
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You can have a single Ops/Automation stack managing many VCF instances.
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Or, if your business or regulatory requirements demand isolation, you can choose a one‑to‑one mapping – each VCF instance with its own Ops/Automation.
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You can also migrate and consolidate existing operations platforms into this model as you modernize.
This flexibility lets you:
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Contain scale and operational blast radius per business unit, customer, or environment.
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Still benefit from centralized operations and automation where it makes sense.
Another important benefit is reducing amount of appliances. Instead of duplicating operations and automation appliances for every instance, you can centralize them:
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Fewer appliances means lower cost and simpler management.
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You use the same APIs and the same tools to manage multiple instances consistently.
When we talk about a primary VCF instance providing management and automation for additional instances, we often refer to this as fleet management.
From there, you can also start thinking about multi‑region designs with separate VCF instances providing high availability across regions, while still being managed as part of the same fleet.
Please check next article as logical continuation: VCF Fleet with Site High Availability (Across Zones)
