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 the following 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.
The following figure shows the vCloud Director abstraction layer in relation to vSphere and physical resources.
Figure 1. VMware vCloud Director Abstraction Layer
