7.2 Cloud Provisioning with vFabric Application Director
vFabric Application Director is an entry point into the vCloud for creating and deploying multitier applications. vFabric Application Director consumes vCloud resources by defining a vCloud provider that is associated with a vCloud Director organization and associated catalogs.

vFabric Application Director
uses the vCloud API and requires access to the vCloud Director servers
to issue provisioning requests.
vFabric Application Director
has a catalog of services that define how to install, configure, and start services on a virtual machine.
vFabric Application Director
can assemble virtual machines and services into a multitier
application that is deployed to a vCloud provider.