Documentation for VMware Cloud Director®, a cloud service delivery platform that delivers secure and efficient cloud resources to service providers and tenants.
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Since April 2020, vCloud Director for Service Providers changed its product name to VMware Cloud Director.
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New to VMware Cloud Director?
VMware Cloud Director, also referred to as VCD, is a cloud services platform that delivers secure, isolated, and elastic virtual data center compute, network, storage, and security in a self-service model. VMware Cloud Director obtains its resources from an underlying virtual infrastructure. After you register vSphere resources in VMware Cloud Director, you can allocate these resources for organizations to use.
For information about installation or deployment the latest VMware Cloud Director or VMware Cloud Director appliance version, see the VMware Cloud Director™ Installation, Configuration, and Upgrade Guide.
For getting started information about the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal or the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal, see Getting Started with VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal or Getting Started with the VMware Cloud Director Tenant Portal.
For information on VMware Cloud Director service, see VMware Cloud Director Service Documentation.
APIs and SDKs
VMware Cloud Director API and SDK documentation is available on https://developer.vmware.com/.
You can use the VMware Cloud Director SDK to build, install and manage VMware Cloud Director Solution Add-Ons in a unified and consistent manner. For details, see VMware Cloud Director Extension SDK.
| API Version | Release Vehicle | Status | Documentation |
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| API Version 38.1 | VMware Cloud Director 10.5.1 | Supported | |
| API Version 38.0 | VMware Cloud Director 10.5 | Supported | |
| API Version 37.2 | VMware Cloud Director 10.4.2 | Supported | |
| API Version 37.1 | VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1 | Supported | |
| API Version 37.0 | VMware Cloud Director 10.4 | Supported | |
| API Version 36.3 | VMware Cloud Director 10.3.3 | Deprecated Unsupported starting with the next major VMware Cloud Director release. |
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| API Version 36.2 | VMware Cloud Director 10.3.2a | Deprecated Unsupported starting with the next major VMware Cloud Director release. |
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| API Version 36.1 | VMware Cloud Director 10.3.1 | Deprecated Unsupported starting with the next major VMware Cloud Director release. |
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| API Version 36.0 | VMware Cloud Director 10.3 | Deprecated Unsupported starting with the next major VMware Cloud Director release. |
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| API Version 35.2 | VMware Cloud Director 10.2.2 | Deprecated Unsupported starting with the next major VMware Cloud Director release. |
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| API Version 35.0 | VMware Cloud Director 10.2 | Deprecated Unsupported starting with the next major VMware Cloud Director release. |
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| API Version 34.0 and earlier | VMware Cloud Director 10.1 and earlier | Not supported |
Learn More About VMware Cloud Director
- VMware Cloud Director 10.4 STIG Readiness Guide
- VMware Cloud Director Security
- VMware Cloud Director Ports and Protocols
- VMware Product Interoperability Matrices
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Cloud Director Community Forum
- VMware Cloud Provider Blog
- Tomas Fojta's Blog (About virtualization, cloud computing and beyond)
- vCloud Architecture Toolkit
- VMware Validated Solutions (VVS) for Cloud Providers
- For a hands-on introduction to VMware Cloud Director, try one of the Hybrid Cloud hands-on labs (HOL).
VMware Cloud Director Extensions and Tools
- Kubernetes service
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Container Service Extension (CSE) is a separate product offering from VMware that works alongside VMware Cloud Director. By using CSE, as a service provider, you can offer a Kubernetes service to your tenants enabling them to deploy fully functional Kubernetes clusters in a self-service and multi-tenant safe fashion. CSE extends the VMware Cloud Director API and UI for Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management. The VMware Cloud Director system administrator can install and operate CSE. See the VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension Documentation.
You can use vSphere with VMware Tanzu in VMware Cloud Director to create and manage Tanzu Kubernetes clusters. See Creating a vSphere with VMware Tanzu Cluster. The Container Service Extension needed only for the upstream CSE orchestrated native clusters and TKGI clusters.
- VMware Cloud Director Terraform provider
- For information, see https://registry.terraform.io/providers/vmware/vcd/latest/docs or the open-source repository at https://github.com/vmware/terraform-provider-vcd.
- vRealize Operations Manager Extension for VMware Cloud Director
- For information, visit https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/solutions/management-pack-for-vcloud-director.
- vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in for VMware Cloud Director
- You can use the vRealize Orchestrator plug-in to run workflows that automate VMware Cloud Director processes. For more information, see the Using the vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for vCloud Director documentation.
