VMWare Cloud Director

Introduction

VMware vCloud Director is a cloud service platform that delivers secure, isolated, elastic virtual data center, compute, network, storage, and security in a self-service model. This enables customers to build secure, multitenant hybrid clouds by pooling infrastructure resources into virtual datacenters and enabling those resources to be consumed by users on-demand. vCloud Director pools datacenter resources, including compute, storage and network, along with their relevant policies into virtual data centers.

vCloud Director is a layer above vCenter, and abstracts all the resources vCenter manages. All these resources are combined into large pools for your customers - i.e., tenants - to consume. VMware vCloud Director not only abstracts and pools resources it also adds a self service portal.

The VMware vCloud Director Cluster is a cluster formed by multiple vCloud Director servers or cells as they are commonly referred to. The cells are responsible for the abstraction of the resources and the portal.

Key Use cases

Discovery Use cases

• It discovers the vCloud Director components.
• Publishes relationships between resources to have a topological view and ease of maintenance.

Monitoring Use cases

• Provides metrics related to job scheduling time and status etc..
• Concern alerts will be generated for each metric to notify the administrator regarding the issue with the resource.

Supported Target Versions

• VMware Cloud Director version: 10.3.3.19610595

Resource Hierarchy

VCLOUD DIRECTOR
      - VCLOUD DIRECTOR CELL
      - VCLOUD DIRECTOR ORGANIZATIONS
      - VCLOUD DIRECTOR PROVIDER vDC
      - VCLOUD DIRECTOR VCENTER SERVER

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