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Multi-Cloud SaaS Management with Flex Appeal

vRealize Cloud Universal supports your business transition to cloud with a consistent hybrid and multi-cloud management experience. You get the flexibility to deploy as SaaS or on-premises and the freedom to move between the two as needed. Plus, multiple licensing and delivery models enable you to move at your own pace, helping your organization become more agile, scalable, and efficient.

Flexibility

Deploy your cloud management as SaaS or on-premises in one license, interchangeably as business needs evolve and move workloads between clouds without repurchasing.

Operational Continuity

Ensure operational optimization and continuity across the business, even as cloud migration is underway, with management that spans your environments.

Productivity

Govern your complex environments nimbly and productively while adopting multi-cloud at your own pace and get faster and more reliable access to innovation.

Cost Savings

Free up IT budget that can be reallocated elsewhere with the choice between SaaS and on-premises management with a single license.

Products Included in vRealize Cloud Universal

CloudHealth

Gain visibility into your multi- and hybrid cloud costs, optimize your infrastructure to avoid wasted spending, and stay on budget without sacrificing development speed or application performance.

EXPLORE CLOUDHEALTH

CloudHealth Secure State

Improve risk visibility & remediate misconfigurations with an intelligent, faster, and scalable cloud native security and compliance approach. 

EXPLORE CLOUDHEALTH SECURE STATE

vRealize Automation

Modernize infrastructure automation with self-service consumption and delivery leveraging DevOps principles like Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and open source innovations.

EXPLORE AUTOMATION

vRealize Operations

Run production operations hands-off and hassle free with this self-driving tool.

EXPLORE OPERATIONS

vRealize Log Insight

Gain visibility across public and private clouds with robust analytics and more.

EXPLORE LOG INSIGHT

VMware Skyline

Avoid problems before they occur and reduce time spent on resolving active support requests with proactive intelligence.

EXPLORE SKYLINE

vRealize AI Cloud

Continuously learn, adapt and optimize your storage KPIs with built-in reinforcement learning.

EXPLORE AI

vRealize Network Insight Cloud

Accelerate application security and networking across private, public and hybrid clouds (only available in VMware Cloud Universal).

EXPLORE NETWORK INSIGHT

Use Cases

Multi Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Cloud Curious
Private Cloud

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vRealize Cloud Universal ROI Calculator

Calculate the estimated savings and return on investment your organization can gain with vRealize Cloud Universal.

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VMware vRealize Cloud Universal is a SaaS management suite offering flexible options to deploy cloud management on-premises and as SaaS in a single license. This offering can be purchased on-demand as a 1-year to a 5-year subscription. Learn more about where services are hosted globally in our vRealize Cloud Management Services map.

Standard

Hybrid cloud infrastructure operations.

 

Self-driving operations for:

  • Performance optimization
  • Capacity and cost management
  • Proactive planning
  • Intelligent remediation
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Advanced

Hybrid cloud infrastructure automation and operations.

 

All the capabilities of Standard, plus:

  • Self-service infrastructure automation across VM and container-based Kubernetes infrastructure
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Enterprise

Hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure management and security.

All the capabilities of Advanced, plus:

  • Cloud Financial Management
  • Security & Compliance
  • DevOps for infrastructure leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
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Enterprise Plus

Hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure plus network visibility.

All the capabilities of Enterprise, plus:

  • End-to-end network visibility and analytics across VMware and 3rd party network infrastructure
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Frequently Asked Questions

VMware vRealize Cloud Universal is a SaaS management suite, designed to accelerate cloud evolution by combining on-premises and SaaS capabilities for automation, operations, log analytics, and network visibility into one license.

The VMware products within vRealize Cloud Universal are:

  • CloudHealth
  • CloudHealth Secure State
  • vRealize Automation | vRealize Automation Cloud
  • vRealize Operations | vRealize Operations Cloud
  • vRealize Log Insight | vRealize Log Insight Cloud
  • vRealize AI Cloud
  • vRealize Network Insight Cloud (only available in vRealize Cloud Universal Enterprise Plus edition)
  • VMware Skyline

 

vRealize Cloud Universal can be purchased in four editions: Standard, Advanced, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus. It can also be purchased as an Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) multi-year subscription. This option, prepaid upfront, delivers up to 30% cost savings compared to on-premises perpetual. The Enterprise Plus edition is only available as part of VMware Cloud Universal and VMware Cloud on AWS.

Please review our data privacy standards. You can view that at https://cloud.vmware.com/trust-center for more details.
Specifically for license enforcement, vRealize Suite Life Cycle Manager collects license usage data from vRealize product instances and transmits the data to vRealize Cloud Subscription Manager (a SaaS service).

vCloud Suite Subscription is a discounted bundle that consists of vRealize Cloud Universal and term license of vSphere Enterprise Plus. It is intended for customers interested in purchasing a cloud management platform solution and expanding their vSphere capacity.

Yes. Standalone vRealize and vRealize Suite customers can upgrade to vRealize Cloud Universal or vCloud Suite Subscription through the Subscription Upgrade Program (SUP).

There is no concept of interchanging licenses between on premises and SaaS. vRealize Cloud Universal is consumption-driven, and your consumption is metered and aggregated so that you can use as much or as little of any on-premises and SaaS components as you wish.

vRealize Cloud Universal supports language and regional format settings in French, Spanish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Japanese and English.

VMware Cloud Universal (VMCU) is a purchasing program and not a product or SKU. It is available through SPP credits for deployment across a customer-managed private cloud, VMware-managed local cloud, or a VMware-managed public cloud.

Yes, the CloudHealth Enterprise Plus bundle, which includes CloudHealth and CloudHealth Secure State, is included in the vRealize Cloud Universal Enterprise edition. This entitles customers to manage $500 of monthly public cloud spend for every license of vRealize Cloud Universal they purchase. Additional capacity for CloudHealth Enterprise Plus can be purchased separately.

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