Business Intent in VCF Operations is used to define placement constraints that represent organizational, licensing, operational, or regulatory requirements. In Workload Optimization, Business Intent works with Operational Intent. Operational Intent determines how aggressively VCF Operations balances or consolidates workloads, while Business Intent defines where workloads are allowed or expected to run based on tag-driven placement rules. The Workload Optimization documentation states that the Business Intent card lets administrators define infrastructure zones within cluster boundaries and select criteria for VM placement; optimization then reports whether workloads are optimized and whether tag violations exist . Therefore, meeting compliance goals , grouping common operating systems and applications together , and license enforcement are valid Business Intent use cases because they are placement-policy objectives. Maximize capacity utilization is not Business Intent; it belongs to capacity optimization and Operational Intent, where VCF Operations balances, consolidates, or optimizes resource usage . Keeping infrastructure cost per VM as low as possible is a FinOps/cost-management goal, not a workload-placement constraint. Reference topic: Objective 4.6 – Workload Optimization / Business Intent vs Operational Intent / Placement Tags and Tag Violations .