Manage your virtual data center independently of different security zones or locations conveniently and clearly in a single management console (Cloud Director by VMware). At the same time, you can see the resources used as well as the states of the individual applications. The VDC gets special flexibility through segmentation (e.g. individual customers or departments) or the selection of data center zones as well as locations.

Whether it's virtual machines (VMs), virtual appliances or entire vApps, your vDC will provision them in seconds at the touch of a button.

In addition, many other functions and configurations such as snapshot, clone, move, affinity rules, CPU, memory, network cards and more, can be used and configured in the management console.

Depending on the requirements different storage policies (classes) are available to the VDC. The classes essentially differ in performance (measured in IOPS). From 500 (low) to 50'000 (ultra-high) IOPS the appropriate class is available for every workload.

In addition to the storage classes, the "Named Disk" function is also available. This can be attached as an independent disk to one or more VMs. This allows e.g. cluster a shared disk, where this is a requirement.

By default, the VDC already includes an edge gateway (powered by NSX-V or NSX-T), which acts as a firewall between the public network and the VDC's internal network to handle security requirements.

In addition, the Edge Gateway has other functions:

• NAT (DNAT / SNAT)
• DHCP
• Routing
• VPN (Client & Site)
• Load balancer

All functions can be configured as needed in real time via web portal.

The connections both inside VDC and outside can be configured in an extremely versatile way.

Networks of the type "isolated & forwarded" can be created very easily. To create a virtual Layer-3 architecture, simply attach Edge Gateways.

In addition, there is the possibility of connections via MPLS, SD-WAN, physical fiber optic lines directly to your VDC.