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title: "Public VCF as-a-Service - The fundamentals of Public VCF as-a-Service"
excerpt: "Discover the basic concepts of Public VCF as-a-Service"
updated: 2024-12-19
updated: 2025-11-04
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## Objective
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|:------------:|:---------------------------:|:------------:|
|Public VCF as-a-Service Standard | - | - |
|Public VCF as-a-Service Advanced | ✅ | - |
|Public VCF as-a-Service Premium | ✅ | ✅ |

#### Cluster Management

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##### Virtual Machine Management

| Features | Standard | Advanced | Premium | Comments |
|:-----------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-------: |:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| Create VM | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Manage Virtual Machines | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Start, Stop, Suspend, Delete, Copy/clone... |
| Affinity Rules | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Anti-Affinity Rules | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| VMware Marketplace | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Allowed to deploy VMs with pre-packaged software solutions |
| Create VM catalogs | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Build your own catalog of VM templates |
| Features | Standard | Advanced | Comments |
|:-----------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| Create VM | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Manage Virtual Machines | ✅ | ✅ | Start, Stop, Suspend, Delete, Copy/clone... |
| Affinity Rules | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Anti-Affinity Rules | ✅ | ✅ | |
| VMware Marketplace | ✅ | ✅ | Allowed to deploy VMs with pre-packaged software solutions |
| Create VM catalogs | ✅ | ✅ | Build your own catalog of VM templates |

#### Organisation / Virtual Datacenter Management

| Features | Standard | Advanced | Premium | Comments |
|:-----------------------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-------: |:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| User Management | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Manage users in a Public VCF as-a-Service |
| Identity Provider Integration - SSO | | | | In Roadmap (via OVHcloud uIAM service) |
| vCPU over-allocation | | | | In Roadmap - Allow users to adjust the quantity of vCPU/GHz for a virtual DC Possible through **OVH manager or API** |
| Features | Standard | Advanced | Comments |
|:-----------------------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------: |
| User Management | ✅ | ✅ | Manage users in a Public VCF as-a-Service |
| Identity Provider Integration - SSO | | | In Roadmap (via OVHcloud uIAM service) |
| vCPU over-allocation | | | In Roadmap - Allow users to adjust the quantity of vCPU/GHz for a virtual DC Possible through **OVH manager or API** |

#### Networking

| Features | Standard | Advanced | Premium | Comments |
| Features | Standard | Advanced |Comments |
|--------------------------------- |---------- |---------- |--------- |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Routing & Switching IPv4 | | ✅ | ✅ | Network segments, distributed & non distributed routing, Routed Network with/without NAT BGP/ DHCP/ DNS/ Static routes Cross virtual DC Networking on the same site. Not supported: OSPF, VRF Lite |
| Public IPv4 Range | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Private Network - vRack support | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | in Roadmap |
| Routing & Switching IPv6 | | | | in Roadmap |
| VPN | | ✅ | ✅ | L2VPN, VPN IPsec Policy Based Not Supported : SSL VPN, Routed based IPsec VPN |
| Load Balancing | | | | Not supported with native Public VCF as-a-Service network capabilities |
| Advanced Load Balancing | | | | in Roadmap |
| Routing & Switching IPv4 | - | ✅ | Network segments, distributed & non distributed routing, Routed Network with/without NAT BGP/ DHCP/ DNS/ Static routes Cross virtual DC Networking on the same site. Not supported: OSPF, VRF Lite |
| Public IPv4 Range | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Private Network - vRack support | ✅ | ✅ | in Roadmap |
| Routing & Switching IPv6 | - | | in Roadmap |
| VPN | - | ✅ | L2VPN, VPN IPsec Policy Based Not Supported : SSL VPN, Routed based IPsec VPN |
| Load Balancing | - | - | Not supported with native Public VCF as-a-Service network capabilities |
| Advanced Load Balancing | - | | in Roadmap |

#### Security

| Features | Standard | Advanced | Premium | Comments |
|:--------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-------: |:----------: |
| Stateful Firewall | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Distributed Firewall | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Security groups | | ✅ | ✅ | |
| IDS / IPS | | | | in Roadmap |
| WAF | | | | in Roadmap |
| Features | Standard | Advanced | | Comments |
|:--------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:----------: |
| Stateful Firewall | - | ✅ | |
| Distributed Firewall | - | ✅ | |
| Security groups | - | ✅ | |
| IDS / IPS | - | | in Roadmap |
| WAF | - | | in Roadmap |

#### Data protection

| Features | Standard | Advanced | Premium | Comments |
|:----------------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-------: |:---------------------------: |
| Backup as a Service | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Veeam Managed Backup Option |
| Virtual Machine Snapshots | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 1 per VM |
| Protection / Replication VMs | | | | in Roadmap |
| Features | Standard | Advanced | Comments |
|:----------------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:---------------------------: |
| Backup as a Service | ✅ | ✅ | Veeam Managed Backup Option |
| Virtual Machine Snapshots | ✅ | ✅ | 1 per VM |
| Protection / Replication VMs | | | in Roadmap |

#### Storage

| Features | Standard | Advanced | Premium | Comments |
|:---------------------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-------: |:--------: |
| NFS datastore | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| High performance datastore (vSAN) | | | ✅ | |
| Features | Standard | Advanced | Comments |
|:---------------------------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:--------: |
| NFS datastore | ✅ | ✅ | |

#### Monitoring

| Features | Standard | Advanced | Premium | Comments |
|:---------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-------: |:-------------------------------------------------: |
| Aria operations | | | | In Roadmap - Resource management Metrics, Dashboard, Reporting |
| Features | Standard | Advanced | Comments |
|:---------------: |:--------: |:--------: |:-------------------------------------------------: |
| Aria operations | | | In Roadmap - Resource management Metrics, Dashboard, Reporting |

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