The CSP can facilitate the NFV transformation on a shared resource infrastructure environment with multitenant consumption models. The design of those tenant environments is outlined in this section.
Scope Multitenancy defines the isolation of resources and networks to deliver applications with quality. Because multiple tenants will share the same resource infrastructure, secure multitenancy can be enabled by using VMware Integrated OpenStack in a single cloud island and across distributed clouds. In addition to the built-in workload and resource optimization capabilities, predictive optimization can be enabled with analytics by using features like vSphere DRS.
Design Objectives A unit of tenancy is called a Tenant vDC within the scope of a Project. It is defined as a composition of dedicated compute, storage, and network resources and as workloads. The tenant is associated with a set of operational policies and SLAs. The Tenant vDC can be bound to a single tenant or shared across many tenants. Services such as HSS, DNS are examples of shared tenancy.