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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Product Details
Platforms Supported
Cloud
Training
Documentation
Support
Online
VMware Cloud Director Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does VMware Cloud Director work with?
VMware Cloud Director works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does VMware Cloud Director support in their product?
VMware Cloud Director supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does VMware Cloud Director offer?
VMware Cloud Director offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does VMware Cloud Director integrate with?
VMware Cloud Director integrates with: ActiveBatch Workload Automation, HyAlto, AuthPoint, OpenText Migrate, Carbonite, Commvault Cloud, Commvault HyperScale X, Hystax Platform, Jamcracker Cloud Management Platform, Otava, SimplyVideo, Stackscale, Switch Automation, vCloud Usage Meter, and VMware Cloud Foundation.
Q: What type of training does VMware Cloud Director provide?
VMware Cloud Director provides training in the form of documentation.
VMware Cloud Director Product Features
Workload Automation
Alerts / Notifications
Supported
Audit Trails
Supported
Business Process Management
Supported
Cross-Platform Scheduling
Supported
Dashboard
Supported
Data Analysis / Visualization
Supported
Event-Triggers
Supported
Load Balancing
Supported
Resource-Based Scheduling
Supported
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Supported
Workflow Foundation Support
Supported
