What is VMware Cloud Director?
2026-10-28
The history of VMware Cloud Director — known as vCloud Director until 2020 — began in 2010. It was originally developed as a software platform for building multitenant clouds on top of VMware vSphere infrastructure. In 2013, VMware stopped offering a separate enterprise edition and focused the product entirely on cloud service providers. It subsequently evolved under the VMware Cloud Provider Program.
Following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in November 2023, the platform continued to be developed. In a cloud provider’s infrastructure, VMware Cloud Director is responsible for building and operating multitenant environments and isolating customer resources. It allows providers to carve logically isolated virtual data centers out of shared pools of compute, storage, and network resources. VMware Cloud Director integrates with vSphere, NSX, and other VMware by Broadcom products. It provides service providers with centralized tools for provisioning virtual data centers, virtual machines, networks, storage, catalogs, and related cloud services through tenant portals and APIs.