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VMware Tanzu CloudHealth

VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As the trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the future. VMware acquired CloudHealth Technologies in October of 2018. VMware joined the FinOps Foundation in 2020 as the first Premier Partner Member.

In August 2022, it was announced that CloudHealth would be named VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth. In August 2023, it was announced that the product would become part of the VMware Tanzu portfolio under the new name of VMware Tanzu CloudHealth.

Product or Service Overview

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth has helped FinOps practitioners from more than 20,000 organizations around the world build, manage, and optimize their cloud financial management practice. By connecting and aggregating data across on-premises, public, and hybrid clouds, as well as containerized environments, Tanzu CloudHealth becomes your single source of truth for multi-cloud management. The platform improves cross-organizational collaboration by providing the ability to customize reports and dashboards via dynamic business groupings known as Perspectives. Practitioners can drive accountability with chargeback, track cloud consumption patterns over time to accurately forecast future budgets, leverage tailored recommendations to optimize costs, and implement governance policies to automate cost control measures. With Tanzu CloudHealth, FinOps practitioners can continuously align and optimize their cloud investments to drive strategic business initiatives.

Supporting Resources

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth
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Supports

ALIBABA
AWS
AZURE
DATA CENTER
GCP
ORACLE
PRIVATE CLOUD

Categories

PLATFORM PROVIDER

Supported Framework Capabilities

Cost Allocation (Metadata & Hierarchy) Managing Shared Cost Measuring Unit Costs Managing Commitment Based Discounts Resource Utilization & Efficiency Establishing FinOps Culture Workload Management & Automation Data Ingestion & Normalization Budget Management FinOps & Intersecting Frameworks Cloud Policy & Governance Data Analysis and Showback Managing Anomalies Forecasting Chargeback & Finance Integration

Tools & Services

Partner FinOps Assets

Shifting FinOps Left in the Development Cycle

Shifting FinOps Left in the Development Cycle

Learn why it’s better to provide FinOps usage and cost data to developers before deployment, and questions developers should be considering as they develop new code.

Story
Create a FinOps Culture Focused on Governance (VMWare & Salesforce)

Create a FinOps Culture Focused on Governance (VMWare & Salesforce)

Lucas Paratore and Jenna Gegg describe how to progress from FinOps governance alerting to governance automation.

Story

Community Contributions

Architecting VM-based Applications for Cost Efficiency

Architecting VM-based Applications for Cost Efficiency

Use this guidance to inform how your engineering teams architect VM-based applications with a focus cloud cost efficiency.

Guide
Introduction to Cloud Unit Economics

Introduction to Cloud Unit Economics

This project is an introduction to the practical application and a methodology of cloud unit economics and teaches how to quantify the associated cost and usage metrics of elasticity.

Guide
Container Cost Allocation Labels and Dictionary

Container Cost Allocation Labels and Dictionary

A collection of resources to help kickstart container cost allocation labeling, suggesting schemas to suit various personas and FinOps maturity levels.

Utility

Make suggestions to the FinOps Framework

Suggest a Resource