By introducing vCloud Director with a vSAN storage platform, VMware Cloud Providers are now able to develop new ways to reduce the cost of provisioning and resource consumption. vCloud Director layers on top of the vSphere infrastructure in a way that offers great agility in provisioning, isolation for multitenancy, and resource metering. Employing vSAN storage on a vCloud Director public cloud platform allows the further abstraction of storage resources and further simplification of the allocation of storage, with new benefits being gained from automation and reduced operational overhead, while maintaining the scalability required to build and manage a service provider storage platform.