VMware vCloud Director Overview

Question:

What is VMware vCloud Director?

Answer:
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, 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

I am not a VMware specialist but this sounds like an interesting product. The following article is a good overview of VMware Cloud Director. It’s an introductory article but an interesting read.

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2010/08/31/vmware-vcloud-director-vcd/

If anyone has had any experience with this yet then feel free to post your thoughts.