Cloud Service Delivery Platform VMware Cloud Director

A policy-driven approach to compute, storage, networking and security ensures tenants have securely isolated virtual resources, independent role-based authentication, and fine-grained control of their public cloud services.

Stretch data centers across sites and geographies; monitor resources from an intuitive single-pane of glass with multi-site aggregate views. Also connect to existing dedicated vCenters for management and access or on-board into VMware Cloud Director.

Leading software vendors across Cloud Native, Backup such as Dell Data Protection and Veeam, DRaaS, Security partners such as Palo Alto, Storage such as Cloudian, Dell ECS and AWS S3, and many more, natively integrated with VMware Cloud Director using our open extensibility framework. We empower cloud providers to deliver differentiated customer experiences and capture more service opportunities.

Deliver self-service tiered disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) to your Cloud Director customers for on-premises to cloud and cloud to cloud. All customers with recent versions of vSphere now can see DRaaS validated partners and easily deploy the appliance necessary to protect their on-premises workloads to your VMware Cloud Director clouds.

Enable simple migration to cloud with VMware Cloud Director Availability plugin for Cloud Director. Offering self-service cold or warm migration to your Cloud Director clouds. Customers can drive their own cold or warm cloud migrations with no complex architecture, networking and security conversions, benefiting from a vSphere target endpoint.

A refreshed dashboard and single pane of glass provide centralized multi-tenant cloud management views. Leverage VMware Aria Operations advanced analytics, chargeback, and native integration into VMware Cloud Director via the Tenant App for deep visibility and custom reporting of customer environments.

VMware Cloud Director natively supports Tanzu Basic (Tanzu Kubernetes Grid), native K8s and Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated (TKGi), providing an easy platform for developers to sandbox or deploy apps. Developers have access to hundreds of VMware Cloud Marketplace secure and tested applications in a simple to consume catalog, now supporting any target endpoint with the inclusion of Helm charts.

VMware Cloud Director supports GPU as a Service with Nvidia AI Enterprise, delivering multi-tenant GPU services for customers seeking high performance compute for GPU specific applications. Customers can run VM or Tanzu (TKGs) containerized applications for AI/ML in the Cloud Director environment with multi-tenanted isolated workloads and flexible vGPU allocation. Customers can harness the power of multiple vGPUs in a single VM to scale application performance, important for deep learning training workloads. This can be complimented with relevant, supported and tuned NVIDIA AI Enterprise applications for AI/ML such as TensorFlow, Mxnet, Dkube, Cognitive Assistance, Dask Parallel Computing etc. Read the Blog & FAQ Understanding vGPU functionality with VMware Cloud Director.

VMware Cloud Director supports multiple security centric features ti deliver an enterprise class cloud service. To help prevent malware customers can utilise NSX-T distributed firewalling securing East-West traffic, further, dynamic groups and membership criteria can be defined to prevent future exposure automating protection. Customers can choose to encrypt workloads to prevent them being accessed without a key. Cloud Providers can deploy IDS and IPS with a single control plane, centralizing all data collection and analytics with NSX Intelligence for a complete secure standing. Data can be protected on or between sites with integrated Disaster Recovery replication. Also Cloud Provider partners with many ecosystem providers for DR and Backup, ensuring a secure and protected cloud service.

Boost the security of your virtual machines with the added support for Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) devices, providing an extra security layer for guest operating systems. By enabling vTPM, you can protect your virtual machines from unauthorized access, tampering, and other security threats. With this cutting-edge feature, you can enjoy greater peace of mind knowing that your virtual machines are fully secure.

Broaden your range of infrastructure services for multiple tenants by incorporating VMware Cloud Director extension for VMware Data Solutions into your offerings. This integrated solution seamlessly connects with VMware Cloud Director, enabling service providers to furnish an extensive array of caching, messaging, and database software to their multi-tenant customer base at a large scale on-demand.