Unified view of hosted private and multitenant clouds. Cloud providers can now expand their cloud offerings to include both multitenant and private cloud with the natively integrated Centralized Point of Management (CPOM) capability in vCloud Director. The new capability eliminates provider challenges and costs associated with building custom tooling to manage multiple types of cloud endpoints. Cloud providers benefit from a unified view of data center health and status of VMs across a global cloud estate of all cloud endpoints.

Intelligent workload placement, which is powered by new vCloud Director compute profiles, enables cloud providers to drive higher efficiency from their cloud infrastructures. Cloud providers can now offer self-service consumption of tiered compute, enforcement of host-based licensing restrictions, and simplified selling based on workload sizes.

Advanced automation. This release of vCloud Director features improvements in automation capabilities, including an enhanced Terraform Provider that supports complete compute and network definition as code. VMware Cloud Providers can now target developers who want to use open source tooling in their cloud automation.

Multicloud networking. Extensive networking updates for NSX-T have been built into this release to prepare for greater support of multiclouds and container environments.

VMware announced the general availability of its Object Storage Solution. The extension for vCloud Director delivers a natively integrated storage solution to help cloud providers grow their businesses and deliver core services customers want in the public cloud. VMware vCloud Director users can consume and operate S3-compliant object storage service that is fully integrated into vCloud Director, enabling them to store and share unstructured data within an organization. VMware’s first partner is Cloudian.

New Backup Certification for vCloud Director: New certification is now available as part of the VMware Ready program to ensure popular backup vendors are fully certified to operate in a multitenant, secure environment based on vCloud Director. Five partners have completed the certification: Cohesity, CommVault, Dell EMC, Rubrik and Veeam.

VMware Cloud Provider Ready for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) program: The program has eight cloud providers now live and in production offering DRaaS on their VMware-powered clouds using the latest release of VMware vCloud Availability.