As part of deploying the new VCF Management Services (VCFMS) component, a pool of IP addresses is provided to support the automatic deployment and scale-out of additional worker nodes for Day-N services such as Log Management and Real-time Metrics. In addition, these IP addresses are also reserved for lifecycle operations such as node recovery, rolling upgrades and scaling out additional service replicas, all of which may require additional IP capacity.
While you can view the current IP allocations by logging into VCF Operations and navigating to Build->Lifecycle->VCF Management and selecting the VCF Services Runtime component (VCFMS), there is currently no high-level view showing how many IP addresses have been consumed relative to the configured IP address pool(s). This can make capacity planning difficult and leave users unsure when additional IP pools may need to be added.
With the help of the VCF Fleet LCM APIs, we can easily audit the IP usage for a given VCFMS deployment and generate a more friendly report
