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      June 11, 2025

      Achieving Comprehensive Network Observability for VMware Cloud Foundation

      How DX NetOps extends visibility to deliver proactive, end-to-end insights for resilient VCF operations.

      5 min read

      Written by: Nestor Falcon Gonzalez
      Key Takeaways
      • Find out how DX NetOps breaks down operational silos by providing comprehensive observability across VCF environments.
      • See how DX NetOps empowers the NOC through correlated alerts, automated SOPs, and actionable dashboards.
      • Employ DX NetOps to better support the agility of network operations and the business.

      Private cloud infrastructure adoption is accelerating rapidly. This move is driven by the ongoing “cloud reset” as leaders rethink their hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, seeking greater control, security, and flexibility for their IT workloads. As a matter of fact, leaders in 69% of organizations are considering repatriating workloads, and one-third already have.

      Navigating this transformation journey involves working with complex architectures. To minimize blind spots and operational risks, teams incorporate overlay/underlay models, hybrid workloads, SD-WAN, Wi-Fi, and, often, technologies from multiple vendors. While VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Operations for Networks delivers best-in-class monitoring, offering real-time insights tailored to VMware infrastructure, this blog explores how DX NetOps by Broadcom—a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic network observability platform—is strategically designed to extend and enhance visibility across every layer of your private network. The result is a future-ready network operations center (NOC) with end-to-end insights from the outset.

      Key challenges for managing private cloud network environments

      Even in private, fully managed, software-defined data centers (SDDCs) such as VCF, NOC teams need to contend with a range of issues, including the following:

      • Downtime and SLA violations resulting from undetected bottlenecks or misconfigurations.
      • Fragmented or insufficient visibility into physical and virtual layers, especially for multi-vendor environments.
      • Siloed tooling and processes impeding coordinated efforts among VCF, NOC, and network engineering teams.
      • Performance gaps caused by emerging workloads, such as AI and IoT.
      • Security vulnerabilities hidden in anomalous flows or non-business traffic.

      These challenges demand a holistic network observability approach, which often goes beyond your private, cloud-native telemetry and monitoring.

      Why DX NetOps for VCF?

      DX NetOps by Broadcom enhances end-to-end observability across your VCF environment, and even beyond your SDDC. Over two decades, the solution has been proven to provide scalable monitoring and multi-vendor support. Here is how DX NetOps can help with your VCF deployments:

      Empower the NOC with unified insights

      Correlated alerts across domains, including physical, virtual, SD-WAN, SDDC, and Wi-Fi.

      Automated standard operating procedures (SOPs) for faster remediations across multiple vendor technologies.

      Actionable performance dashboards enabling proactive issue resolution and optimization across VCF and network domains.

      Achieve end-to-end network observability

      • Traditional physical network infrastructure monitoring, featuring more than 1,200 vendor certifications and support for over 6,000 device models.
      • Flow data from any vendor, enabling granular traffic and anomaly analysis.
      • Multi-vendor SDDC support.
      • Network configuration management that reduces configuration drift risks and ensures stronger compliance.
      • User experience monitoring, validating networks connecting data centers and cloud environments, for which network operations have only limited control.
      • SD-WAN performance monitoring for more than eight major vendors.
      • Wi-Fi access networks insights, where user experience often begins.

      Feed VCF with network intelligence

      DX NetOps does not operate in a silo; it can expose relevant network insights to any solution (including VCF) via API or Kafka. This enriches your operational view with data beyond the VMware ecosystem. DX NetOps can also integrate with vSphere or NSX to bring VCF performance, events, and inventory into the NOC. This means better collaboration, fewer hand offs, and faster issue resolution.

      Why does it matter for the business?

      By leveraging DX NetOps as the network observability solution for your private cloud, your organization gains these benefits:

      1. Reduced resource contention using forecasting and capacity planning, especially as AI and high-throughput applications place new demands on your network.
      2. Unified visibility and control, consolidating fragmented monitoring tools into one intelligent platform that improves cross-team alignment.
      3. Proactive network management leveraging real-time insights and historical trend analysis.
      4. Improved security posture with quick detection and response to anomalous flows.
      5. Optimized operational cost, minimizing downtime, SLA breaches, and inefficient troubleshooting with automated analysis.

      Start today

      Whether you are planning a cloud migration, scaling your private cloud deployment, integrating SD-WAN, or preparing your network infrastructure for AI workloads, DX NetOps helps you to stay ahead with complete cross-domain, multi-vendor visibility and proactive insights to boost automation and collaboration.

      Start building your network observability strategy today. See how DX NetOps enables you to build a more agile, reliable, and intelligent network.

      Tag(s): Network Monitoring , Network Observability , Network Management , SD-WAN , SDDC , VCF , VMWare Cloud Foundation , WiFi , User Experience

      Nestor Falcon Gonzalez

      Nestor holds a Master's Degree in Telecommunication Engineering and has over 20 years of experience in Telco, Network and Infrastructure Operations in different roles: SWAT, pre-sales and Solution Architect. He focuses on helping customers on their network transformation, driving innovation and providing value for...

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