Audience
IT professionals that need a workload automation and cloud service-delivery platform
About VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director is a leading cloud service-delivery platform used by some of the world’s most popular cloud providers to operate and manage successful cloud-service businesses. Using VMware Cloud Director, cloud providers deliver secure, efficient, and elastic cloud resources to thousands of enterprises and IT teams across the world. Use VMware in the cloud through one of our Cloud Provider Partners and build with VMware Cloud Director. A policy-driven approach helps ensure enterprises have isolated virtual resources, independent role-based authentication, and fine-grained control. 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.
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Company Information
Broadcom
Founded: 1991
United States
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VMware Cloud Director Frequently Asked Questions
VMware Cloud Director Product Features
Workload Automation
Alerts / Notifications
Audit Trails
Business Process Management
Cross-Platform Scheduling
Dashboard
Data Analysis / Visualization
Event-Triggers
Load Balancing
Resource-Based Scheduling
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Workflow Foundation Support