VMware Cloud brings VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software to the public Cloud, enabling you to operate your production applications and workloads across VMware vSphere®-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. The solution integrates VMware’s flagship compute, storage, and network virtualization products (vSphere, vSAN, and NSX) along with vCenter management, and optimizes it to run on elastic public cloud infrastructure.

The purpose of the Operate pillar is to outline the guidelines and considerations for operating a VMware Cloud infrastructure.