Service Description
Version 2024.01.01
Note: The Service was previously named vCloud Private Cloud.
With VMware Cloud Director as a Service, your workloads share the GleSYS VMware platform of infrastructure and VMware components. VMware workloads across different Cloud accounts are securely isolated by VMware Cloud Director virtualization of networking, storage, CPU, and RAM. Read more
Locations
The product is present in the following locations:
- dc-fbg1 (our DC in Falkenberg, Sweden)
- dc-sto1 (our DC in Stockholm, Sweden)
Features at a Glance
- VMware infrastructure health and patching is managed by GleSYS Operations up through the hypervisor.
- Create and deploy VMware workload vApps and virtual machines.
- Fully customizable VM configurations (CPU, memory, storage).
- Support for hot-add compute resources and block storage.
- Fully customizable network topology with firewall, NAT, VPN, DHCP & Load Balancing services.
- Role based access control (RBAC).
Technical Specification
| Storage tiers |
Gold: 6000 IOPS
Silver: 1200 IOPS |
| Shared CPU |
Yes |
| Backup support |
Yes (Veeam as an add-on) |
| Snapshot support |
Yes |
| High Availability – automatic failover support |
Yes |
| Anti-affinity rules |
Yes |
| Import/export VM |
Yes |
| Processing of personal data |
Storage, transfer |
1. NSX Networking (default, recommended)
| Bandwidth |
Configurable 100 Mbps – 10 Gbps |
| High Availability |
Yes |
| VM networking |
NAT is a requirement for providing inbound/outbound access into the VDC. |
| IPv6 support |
No |
| Internal networks limit |
10 networks (contact sales for more) |
| Firewall on edge GW |
Yes |
| IPsec Site-to-Site |
Yes |
| Client VPN |
No |
| Load balancer |
Yes (additional cost, contact sales) |
| Remote Syslog configuration |
No |
| Bring your own IP |
No |
2. Non-NSX Networking
| Router |
Customer installs and configures/supports router (hardware or software). |
| Bandwidth |
As agreed upon with sales |
| IP adressing |
Link network and VLAN required for BGP peering. |
| VM networking |
Can be placed directly on a public network (no NAT required, dual stack IPv4/IPv6 supported). |
| Internal networks limit |
10 networks (contact sales for more) |
| Bring your own IP |
Yes |
Veeam Backup (optional)
| Customer self-service |
No, ordered through sales and need activation |
| Configurable scheme |
Yes |
| Redundant backups |
No |
Responsibilities
| Infrastructure platform |
GleSYS |
| Update resource quota (by request) |
GleSYS |
| Manage workloads |
Customer |
| Create network topology |
Customer |
| Configure network services |
Customer |
| Monitoring environment |
Customer |
| Patching and updating OS |
Customer |
| Troubleshooting OS |
Customer |
| Backup management and validation |
Customer |
| Restore from backup |
Customer |
