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$ soultec get solution/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation -o yaml$ soultec get solution/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation -o json$ soultec get solution/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation -o toml$ soultec get solution/vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation -o xml$ python3 vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation.pyPS> ./vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation.ps1$ go run vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation.go$ node vmware/vmware-cloud-foundation/vcf-automation.js

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What it is

body: | VCF Automation is the self-service layer over the platform: a catalogue people draw virtual machines, networks or Kubernetes namespaces from, with approval, an expiry date and teardown. Until VCF 9 it was called Aria Automation. - heading:

When it is worth it

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Solution · VMware

VCF Automation

formerly Aria Automation

VCF

The vendor calls it: VMware VCF Automation

Self-service and lifecycle for virtual machines, networks and Kubernetes namespaces. A catalogue with approval, an expiry date and teardown.

VMware Pinnacle Partner

Topics Automation 1.81 DevOps 3.16 Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

Vendors VMware 0.98

04Services

06Posts

04Capabilities

315Corpus

photograph wantedA vSphere or VCF console on a real screen at soulTec: a cluster view, a running task, an inventory tree, so the reader should recognise the UI

What it is

VCF Automation is the self-service layer over the platform: a catalogue people draw virtual machines, networks or Kubernetes namespaces from, with approval, an expiry date and teardown. Until VCF 9 it was called Aria Automation.

When it is worth it

For environments where the same request keeps arriving. One example is a development team that creates and discards environments daily.

What we do with it

Draft, unreviewed

Draft, not yet reviewed. Who may order what has to be settled before automation is introduced.

This paragraph is a draft and nobody at soulTec has confirmed it yet. Everything above it describes the product and is checkable against the vendor.

Posts about it

VCF full stack from October 2027 – myth or truth?

18 May 2026

A myth that will not go away, and one VMware's competitors are happy to repeat: “from October 2027 a full-stack VCF implementation is mandatory”. It simply is not true.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

Microsoft Secure Boot certificates expire in June 2026

7 May 2026

Microsoft is refreshing the Secure Boot certificates originally issued in 2011, so Windows systems keep verifying trusted boot software. The old ones expire in June 2026.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

VLR Appliance 9.0.4 – HBR-Agent can't be installed

12 Dec 2025

You installed VLR Appliance 9.0.4 and it will not install the Host Based Replication Agent for ESX. If you run a vSAN stretched cluster, there is a workaround.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

Fix NSX to Re-Import ESX into VCF

11 Oct 2025

If you stumble upon this blog chances are you are working on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

Get Online Depot working in VCF 9

2 Sep 2025

In VMware Cloud Foundation 9 we can configure a Online Depot to get access to the Binaries for the Management as well as the Instance Components.

Cloud 1.92 Virtualization 1.42

share powershell scripts on-site

18 Jul 2017

If you work in the field of VMware you tend to automate things as soon as the opportunity presents itself. Either to save time or to rid yourself of tedious work that repeats itself over and over.

Automation 1.81 DevOps 3.16