VMware VCLOUD DIRECTOR

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D A T A S H E E T

AT A GLANCE

VMware vCloud™ Director gives customers the ability

to build secure private clouds that dramatically

increase datacenter eciency and business agility.

Coupled with VMware vSphere™, the best platform

for cloud infrastructures, VMware vCloud Director

delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters

by pooling virtual infrastructure resources and

delivering them to users as catalog-based services.

KE Y B E N E F I TS

•Increasebusinessagilitybyempoweringusersto

deploy preconﬁgured or custom-built services

with the click of a button.

•Maintainsecurityandcontrolovermulti-tenant

environments with policy-based user controls

and VMware vShield™ security technologies.

•Reducecostsbyecientlydeliveringresources

to internal organizations as virtual datacenters to

increase consolidation and simplify management.

•Leverageexistinginvestmentsandopen

standards to ensure interoperability and

application portability between clouds.

VMware vCloud Director

BuildSecurePrivateCloudstoDeliverInfrastructureasaService

What is VMware vCloud

Director?

VMware vCloud Director is a software solution that enables

enterprises to build secure, multi-tenant private clouds by pooling

infrastructure resources into virtual datacenters and exposing

them to users through Web-based portals and programmatic

interfaces as fully automated, catalog-based services.

By building secure and cost-eective private clouds with VMware

vSphere and VMware vCloud Director, internal IT organizations

can act as true service providers for the businesses they support,

driving innovation and agility while increasing IT eciency and

enhancing security. This solution provides a pragmatic path to

cloud computing by giving customers the power to leverage

existing investments and the ﬂexibility to extend capacity

between clouds.

How Does VMware vCloud

Director Work?

Deliver Infrastructure as a Service

VMware vCloud Director enables IT organizations to deliver

resources to internal users as virtual datacenters. By logically

pooling compute, storage, and networking capacity into virtual

datacenters, IT organizations can manage resources more eciently

with complete abstraction between consumption and delivery of

IT services.

Instead of providing users or organizations with siloed physical

infrastructures, IT teams can deliver isolated virtual datacenters

that draw resources from a common physical infrastructure. By

pooling these physical resources on the back end, hardware

utilization and consolidation increases. Similarly, underlying

infrastructure can be pooled into tiers and oered to users at

distinct service levels and prices.

Consume Infrastructure as a Service

VMware vCloud Director also changes the way that users consume

IT services. Instead of ﬁling service desk tickets and waiting in queues,

application and line-of-business owners can utilize self-service

portals to access their own virtual datacenters. VMware vCloud

Director enables users to consume these resources as a catalog-

based service through a Web portal and programmatic interfaces.

VMware vCloud Director lets IT organizations create secure private clouds for delivering

IT resources as catalog-based services that users can consume on demand.

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Summary

What is VMware vCloud Director

How Does VMware vCloud Director Work

Deliver Infrastructure as a Service

IT organizations deliver resources to users as virtual datacenters, pooling capacity and abstracting consumption from delivery.

Consume Infrastructure as a Service

Users access virtual datacenters via self-service portals or APIs, consuming resources as catalog-based services.

How is VMware vCloud Director Used

Key Features

Create Virtual Datacenters

Logical constructs combining compute, storage, and networking for resource abstraction and consumption.

Support Multi-Tenant Environments

Enables secure isolation and policy control for multiple organizations or business units within a single infrastructure.

vShield Security Technologies

Provides virtualization-aware security, perimeter protection, and network controls for secure deployment.

Infrastructure Service Catalog

Empowers users to deploy pre-configured services via catalogs, enabling standardization and simplified management.

Self-Service Portal

Offers users direct access to catalogs and virtual datacenters through a user-friendly web interface.

VMware vCloud API and Open Virtualization Format

Provides programmatic access and supports OVF for flexible deployment and hybrid cloud integration.

Automation and Orchestration

Leverages APIs and integrations to automate tasks, build workflows, and script complex operations.

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