VMware Cloud Director™ service is a multi-cloud service-delivery platform that you can use to partition and manage VMware Cloud on AWS, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Azure VMware Solution, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, or on-premises SDDC resources into resource pools that you can make available to tenants through an on-demand self-service model, in a securely isolated multi-tenant environment.

As a service provider or an enterprise customer, you can use VMware Cloud Director service to build secure, multitenant clouds by pooling virtual infrastructure resources into virtual data centers. You can then expose the clouds to tenants by using Web-based portals and programmatic interfaces as a fully automated, catalog-based service.

With VMware Cloud Director service, you can provision VMware Cloud Director™ instances in a SaaS model, in which the infrastructure for the underlying SDDC instances is provided by either VMware Cloud on AWS, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Azure VMware Solution, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, or by an on-premises environment.

You can also manage the life cycle of the VMware Cloud Director instances and their connectivity to underlying SDDC resources.

The provider administrator creates VMware Cloud Director instances which run on different infrastructure resources, in different regions, and are used by the tenants.

You can associate a VMware Cloud Director service instance with any configuration of VMware Cloud on AWS, Google Cloud VMware Engine, Azure VMware Solution, Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, or on-premises SDDCs.

Note: Some cluster configurations in VMware Cloud on AWS can affect the service-level agreement (SLA). For information on the minimum hosts per cluster with and without an SLA, see VMware Cloud on AWS Configuration Limits.