VMware VCLOUD DIRECTOR Datasheet

D A T A S H E E T
VMware vCloud Director
Build Secure Private Clouds to Deliver Infrastructure as a Service
AT A G L A N C E
VMware vCloud™ Director gives customers the ability
to build secure private clouds that dramatically
increase datacenter efficiency 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.
K E y B E N E F I T S
• 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 efficiently 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 lets IT organizations create secure private clouds for delivering
IT resources as catalog-based services that users can consume on demand.
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-effective 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 efficiency 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 efficiently
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 offered 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.
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