What Is VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension with VMware Cloud Director Service

You can configure VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension with VMware Cloud Director service that runs on VMware Cloud on AWS.

What is VMware Cloud on AWS

VMware Cloud on AWS is an integrated cloud offering jointly developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware. With VMware Cloud on AWS, you can deliver highly scalable and secure services by migrating and extending your on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments to the AWS Cloud running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). For more information, see https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-on-AWS/index.html.

What Is VMware Cloud Director Service

VMware Cloud Director service is a cloud-service application that uses the underlying infrastructure of VMware Cloud on AWS.

With VMware Cloud Director service, cloud providers can deliver virtual infrastructure resources in a multitenant cloud environment.

For more information, see https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Director-service/index.html.

What Is VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension with VMware Cloud Director Service

You can configure VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension to work with VMware Cloud Director service and provide native AWS S3 object storage capabilities to tenant users of VMware Cloud Director.

Roles and Rights in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension

Any user with an account that is activated from the VMware Cloud Director perspective can access VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.

The items you see and the actions you can perform depend on the rights assigned to your user profile within a VMware Cloud Director organization.

The rights assigned to your user profile in VMware Cloud Director define your user role in VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension.

The following table contains the mapping between VMware Cloud Director rights and VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension roles.