Provider Virtual Data Centers in Your VMware Cloud Director

In VMware Cloud Director, a provider virtual data center (VDC) combines the compute and memory resources of vCenter resource pools with the storage resources of one or more storage policies from a single vCenter instance.

For network resources, a provider VDC can use NSX Data Center for vSphere, NSX, or the networking resources of vSphere.

• You can create and manage a provider VDC backed by an attached vCenter instance and its associated NSX-V Manager instance by using the Service Provider Admin Portal or the vCloud API.
• You can create and manage a provider VDC backed by an attached vCenter instance and an NSX Manager instance by using the Service Provider Admin Portal or the vCloud API.
• If you plan to only use vSphere networking resources, you can create a provider VDC without a network pool.

A typical VMware Cloud Director system includes multiple provider VDCs configured to meet various service level requirements. Each provider VDC has a primary resource pool. You can add and remove non-primary resource pools from the backing vCenter instance. You cannot remove the primary resource pool.