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Product Information
VMware vCloud Director works together with VMware vSphere to provide a powerful, secure private cloud delivered through your virtual infrastructure. Pool your resources into virtual datacenters and allow users to efficiently access the computational power via a fully automated catalog-based service accessible through a Web-based portal or via APIs. Through vCloud Director you can empower your users to deploy preconfigured or custom-built services with the click of a button whilst maintaining control over multi-tenant environments with policy-based controls.
New Features
New in vCloud Director 1.5
- Fast Provisioning using VMware's Linked Clone technology to dramatically speed up provisioning time and reduce storage costs.
- SQL Server support & Cisco Nexus 1000v integration for easier integration with existing environments.
- Custom Extensions and an Expanded vCloud API to integrate vCloud Director to existing enterprise systems (e.g. CMDB, IPAM).
- vShield Edge VPN integration to enable secure networking between isolated organisations across multiple clouds.
- Validate compliance against regulatory requirements reduces chances of failed audits.
Features
Virtual datacenters
These logical constructs include compute, storage, networking capacity and associated policy to enable complete abstraction between the delivery of infrastructure services and the underlying resources.
Security
Integrated vShield Edge technologies such as perimeter protection, port-level firewalls, network address translation and DHCP services offer virtualisation-aware security, simplify application deployment and enforce boundaries required by compliance standards. Upgrading to the full vShield Edge solution adds advanced services such as site-to-site VPN, network isolation and Web load balancing.
Fast provisioning
Unique VMware Linked Clones technology accelerates cloning of base vApps into child vApps by storing only changes made by children and reading all other data from the base. IT saves on storage, and end users of cloned applications enjoy significant speed of provisioning.
vApp catalog
Users are empowered to deploy and consume preconfigured infrastructure and application services, such as virtual appliances, virtual machines and operating system images, with the click of a button from central catalogs. This enables IT teams to standardise offerings, simplifying troubleshooting, patching and change management.
Organisations
Administrators can group users into organisations with associated policies that can represent any unit of consumption, such as a development team, business unit or division. Each organisation can be granted isolated virtual resources, independent LDAP authentication, specific policy controls and unique catalogs. These features enable secure multitenancy and controlled sharing of infrastructure.
Self-service portal
Users have direct access to their catalogs and virtual datacenters through a user-friendly Web portal.
VMware vCloud API, OVF, and custom extensions
The vCloud API is an open, REST-based API that allows scripted access to cloud resources, such as vApp upload and download, catalog management, and other operations. The vCloud API makes basic transfer between clouds possible using OVF, which preserves application properties, networking configuration and other settings. Custom extensions enable VMware vCloud Director to send outbound messages to other integrated systems.