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VMware vCloud

VMware vCloud Director lets you build secure, multitenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers and exposing them to users. CA Virtual Assurance supports VMware vCloud Director management.

vCloud Director resources depend on underlying vSphere resources such as CPU, memory, storage, or vNetwork Distributed Switches to run virtual machines. You can use these underlying vSphere resources to create virtual machines and vApps in vCloud.

A vCloud Organization is a unit of administration that represents a collection of users, groups, and computing resources. Associated virtual datacenters provide the required computing resources. After users authenticate at the organization level, they can create, use, and manage virtual machines or vApps.

A virtual datacenter (vDC) provides virtual computing resources to a vCloud organization. You can provision, run, and store virtual systems in a virtual datacenter. A vCloud organization can have multiple virtual datacenters.

Organizations provide catalogs to store vApp templates and media files. The members of an organization can use the vApp templates and media files in the catalog to create their own vApps.