VCF 9 Partner Fleet Planning Sizer

Sizing • entitlements • domain breakdown

Quick planning tool for VCF 9: management domain footprint + workload clusters, and a core/vSAN entitlement view (VCF: 1 TiB vSAN per core).

Total Fleet Hosts

Core Licenses

vSAN ESA Usable

1. Management Host Profile

CPUs / Host

Cores / CPU

RAM / Host

NVMe Qty

NVMe Size (TB)

CPU OVERSUB

MEM OVERSUB

vSAN FTT

vSAN RAID

2. Management VM Stack

Inc	Component Name	Nodes	Size	vCPU	RAM	Disk (GB)

3. Planning Assumptions

Host & Ops Reserve (%)

Used if a WLD does not override reserve.

HA Policy (Mgmt)

N+1 / N+2 adds hosts on top of computed demand.

Mgmt Min Hosts

ESA Dedup

ESA Compression

vSAN Free Space Reserve (%)

DRR = Dedup × Compression. Keep DRR realistic for your dataset.

Mgmt Domain Summary

Compute

Memory

Storage

Mgmt Hosts --

Assumptions --

License Breakdown

Core licensing by domain + vSAN entitlement (VCF: 1 TiB per core) vs required (raw).

Workload Domains

Disclaimer

This calculator is an unofficial planning aid intended to help teams estimate sizing and licensing for VCF 9 deployments. It is provided “as-is” for convenience only. It is not an official VMware/Broadcom tool and is not endorsed, sponsored, reviewed, or supported by my employer or any vendor.

Results may vary significantly based on workload behavior, data reduction characteristics (dedupe/compression), availability policies, networking/storage design, and operational constraints. Always validate the output with your official product documentation, vendor sizing guides, and field engineering recommendations before making procurement or deployment decisions.