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VMware Enhances vCloud Director for Service Provider Partners

To build hybrid cloud

VMware, Inc. announced the availability of vCloud Director 5.6, the first release designed exclusively for vCloud Air network service providers.

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The update to vCloud Director will provide access to new enhancements used in vCloud Air (formerly VMware vCloud Hybrid Service). With vCloud Director 5.6, service providers can build differentiated hybrid cloud services for enterprise organizations.

We continue to actively engage with our service provider partners, and are pleased to offer these enhancements to VMware vCloud Director,” said Geoff Waters, VP, service provider channel, cloud services business unit, VMware. “With VMware vCloud Director 5.6, we are providing the tools to VMware vCloud Air Network service providers to continue to offer customers flexibility and choice of cloud platforms on a local basis.

vCloud Director orchestrates the provisioning of software-defined data center services, enabling service providers to deliver complete virtual data centers for easy consumption in minutes. As a result, service providers and their customers are able to move on-premises workloads to the cloud quickly, seamlessly and with confidence.  It is also a foundational component of vCloud Air, the platform for cloud services delivered by VMware.

Enhancements to vCloud Director 5.6 include:

  • VM Disk Level Storage Profiles – Allows a single VM to access different tiers of storage such as SAN, NAS, and local storage to help balance storage cost versus storage performance. VMware vCloud Director 5.6 also supports VMware Virtual SAN.
  • VMware NSX Support – Provides customers with simple, secure network virtualization and micro-segmentation via the VMware NSX platform, in addition to the current vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) support.
  • VM Monitoring Service – Provides visibility into current and historical VM performance metrics at an individual tenant level. Tenants can use this new capability to troubleshoot application performance issues, auto-scale their applications and perform capacity planning.
  • Updated Software Development Kits (SDKs) to the vCloud API – New set of Java, PHP, and .NET SDKs with documentation and samples available.
  • ISV Ecosystem User Interface (UI) – Provides ISVs with a platform that allows them access to underlying vCloud Director capabilities through APIs. These APIs enable ISVs to build multiple, flexible UI based cloud-related services, such as VM monitoring, catalogs and vApps, on top of vCloud Director 5.6 that can be leveraged by service providers. All new functionalities within vCloud Director 5.6 are only available through APIs.

Simon Hansford, CTO, Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, said: “VMware vCloud Director 5.6 fits into our cloud strategy as it enables Skyscape to move critical workloads seamlessly between our cloud environment and customers’ on-premise environments thereby allowing them ultimate flexibility. The increased performance we have seen with VMware vCloud Director 5.6 and being current with the latest technology from VMware helps our customers maximize their benefit from cloud computing.”

Anthony Spiteri, infrastructure architect – operations, ZettaGrid Pty Ltd, said: “VMware vCloud Director 5.6 has allowed ZettaGrid to continue to expand on the already strong VMware vCloud Director by allowing us to take advantage of new features such as VM Disk Level Storage Policies which give tenants the ability to split VM disk workloads onto more appropriate storage tiers which we offer as ioSTOR. We are now able to offer basic VM monitoring for CPU, memory and disk that is something that tenants have been asking of us for a while.”

Carsten Sjørup, CTO, OnApp Limited, said: “We work with hundreds of telcos and cloud hosting providers worldwide, and the ability to integrate OnApp’s web and mobile user interfaces, billing and monitoring features with VMware vCloud Director has been an extremely popular request. With the new APIs exposed via VMware vCloud Director 5.6, we’ve been able to accelerate that development.

Alex Danyluk, senior director, partner ecosystem, Parallels, Inc., said: “The demand for bundled services is increasing, and Parallels Automation integration with VMware vCloud Director 5.6 enables Service Providers to take advantage of this market opportunity. We’re excited to work together with VMware to simplify multi-tenant cloud management for Service Providers using Parallels Automation and Application Packaging Standard.”

VMware vCloud Director 5.6 is available for the VMware vCloud Air network service providers.

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