The following figure depicts a common onboarding scenario in which the customer wants to deploy new workloads onto the VMware Cloud Provider Program hosted service on an extended L2 network. This can be used in instances where an on-premises network must be extended to machines in the cloud, but it is simply more efficient to manually provision the workload to the VMware Cloud Provider Program hosted solution than it would be to migrate the workloads to the VMware Cloud Provider Program environment.

 

To ease management of both infrastructures, the vCenter Server instances can be paired on the same SSO domain and managed from the same login to the vSphere Web Client. Having both vCenter Server instances joined to the same SSO domain is optional, but is recommended for easier management of the environments.