VMware Cloud Director Announced.
VMware vCloud Director(vCD) lets you deliver resources to internal organizations as virtual datacenters. By logically pooling compute, storage and networking capacity into virtual datacenters. It's using vCenter as a base and creates a new layer above vCenter that enables to create a self service portal for vApps, and provides an access to resource pools, storage, network…
VMware vCloud Director enables customers to build secure private and public clouds. Applications can be deployed across private and public clouds. The pooled computing, network and storage resources are offered as a catalog through web based portal.
A multi-tenant environments
A quick quote from VMware:
Administrators can group users into organizations that can represent any policy group such as a business unit, division or subsidiary company. Each has isolated virtual resources, independent LDAP-authentication, specific policy controls, and unique catalogs. These features enable a multi-tenant environment with multiple organizations sharing the same infrastructure.
Main features:
- Supports multi tenancy/organizational isolation.
- Allows for the creation of central application catalogs and personalization of templates.
- Enables creation and deployment of vApps from catalogs/templates.
- Controls user resource usage through roles/rights, quotas and leases.
- Enables programmatic control through the RESTful vCloud API.
- Provides an additional level of abstraction from underlying hardware.
Download and evaluate the product during 60 days.
More documentation here. See the VMware Cloud Director vCD site here.
vCloud Director Installation and Configuration Guide
vCloud Director Administrator Guide
vCloud Director User Guide
Evaluation and how-to guide PDF
Source: VMware
