The first of the release out of VMWorld 2010. VMWare has released the vCloud Director for a better interface to public and private clouds. The vCloud Director allows customers to better manage multi-tenant environments and give users a self-service portal in creating the services that they need. The vCloud Director can be downloaded here. You can try it out with a 60-day eval version that can be downloaded here. Since the product is brand new, here’s the feature highlights section from the release notes:
VMware vCloud Director provides the interface, automation, and management required by enterprises and service providers to build private and public clouds. vCloud Director:
- 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
Definitely worth evaluating in your environment. A 60-day eval is available here.
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