VMware have officially launched VMware vCloud Director today at VMworld.
I recently joined VMware to work in the Cloud Services team, and this is the product we have been working on developing and testing with some customers under NDA.
Here is an excerpt from the VMware website:
Pool virtual infrastructure resources in your existing datacenter and deliver them to users as a catalogue-based service with VMware vCloud Director. Coupled with VMware vSphere™, the best platform for cloud infrastructures, VMware vCloud Director enables customers to build secure private clouds, transforming the way IT delivers and manages infrastructure services and the way users access and consume these services.
Increase business agility by empowering users to deploy pre-configured services or custom-built services with the click of a button
Maintain security and control over a multi-tenant environment 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
Follow an evolutionary path to the cloud by leveraging existing investments and open standards for interoperability and application portability between clouds
VMware vCloud Director fits in with the VMware product family, including vCenter, vCenter Orchestrator and VMware ChargeBack.
Here is a diagram that I put together to show how the components all fit together:
Another member of the Cloud Services Team, Duncan Epping of Yellow-Bricks has wrote an article about VMware vCloud Director. Click Here to read it.
More information can be found here:
Release Notes:
http://www.vmware.com/support/vcd/doc/rel_notes_vcloud_director_10.html
Download Landing Page:
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vcloud_director/1_0
Documentation Landing:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vcd_pubs.html
Product site:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/
Eval Guide:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW-vCloud-Director-EvalGuide.pdf
Screenshots:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/screens.html
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