Overview

VMware Cloud Director is a leading cloud service-delivery platform that enables cloud service providers to operate and manage successful cloud-service businesses. It transforms physical data centers into virtual data centers (VDCs), allowing providers to offer secure, multi-tenant cloud resources to enterprise customers.

Features and Capabilities

• Multi-Tenant Resource Pooling: Create virtual data centers from common or distributed infrastructure to cater to heterogeneous enterprise customer needs.
• Cloud-Native Offerings: Provide enterprise-grade native and Tanzu-based Kubernetes runtimes, enabling self-service deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters.
• Deep Automation: Achieve operational efficiency with context-aware automation across workflows, including Terraform Provider support for infrastructure as code.
• Service Suite and Service Stitching: Integrate offerings from leading vendors and publish custom services through App Launchpad, delivering a unified platform for the entire service portfolio.
• Policy-Driven Cloud Management: Ensure secure, isolated virtual resources with intelligent dynamic distributed firewalling and fine-grained access control across data centers, sites, virtual machines, and applications.
• Global Hybrid Cloud Management: Manage and gain deep visibility into data centers across sites and geographies, monitoring cloud resources from a single pane of glass.
• Cloud Migration and Availability: Enable simple, secure VM migration and data center extension with VMware Cloud Availability, supporting hybrid environments.
• Networking and Security: Support NSX-T with dynamic distributed firewalling, cross VDC networking, and layer 2 VPN services natively, along with NSX Advanced Load Balancer for application intelligence.
• Operational Visibility and Insights: Leverage integration with VMware vRealize Operations’ Tenant App for multi-layer analytics and predictive remediation, providing visibility into virtual machine costs and accountability.