Introduction
VMware Cloud Providers™ with the VMware Hybrid Cloud Powered Services badge provide their enterprise customers with a true hybrid cloud experience—full compatibility for their existing virtual applications running on an internal VMware vSphere® environment using the same set of tools to manage their internal and cloud virtual data centers.
The service provider must be validated by VMware to verify that their public cloud fulfills the following hybrid requirements:
• Cloud service is built on vSphere and VMware vCloud Director®
• VMware vCloud user API is exposed to cloud tenants
• Cloud supports Open Virtualization Format (OVF) for bidirectional workload movement
This document provides guidance on how to design vSphere and vCloud Director and other supporting technologies to enable any service provider to obtain the VMware Hybrid Cloud Powered Service badge.