1.2.1 VMware vCloud Director
VMware vCloud Director further abstracts the virtualized resources presented by vSphere by providing the following logical constructs that map to vSphere logical resources:
Organization – A logical object that provides a security and policy boundary. Organizations are the main method of establishing mult
itenancy and typically represent a business unit, project, or customer in a p
rivate vCloud
environment.Virtual datacenter – Deployment environments
in which virtual machines run.
Organization virtual datacenter – An organization’s allocated portion of provider virtual datacenter
resources,
including CPU, RAM, and storage.
Provider virtual datacenter – vSphere resource groupings of c
ompute, s
torage, and network
resources that power
organization
virtual datacenters.
Figure 1 shows the vCloud Director abstraction layer in relation to vSphere and physical resources.
Figure 1. VMware vCloud Director Abstraction Layer
