DATA S H E E T

VMware vCloud Suite

Standard, Advanced and Enterprise Editions

AT A G L A N C E

VMware vCloud Suite is an integrated offering for

building and managing a VMware vSphere private
cloud based on the Software-Defined Data Center
architecture that can dramatically improve efficiency,
agility, and control for IT organizations. vCloud Suite
delivers virtualization economics across the data
center and provisions applications at business speed
with the right levels of security and availability. vCloud
Suite is for IT organizations that require advanced
virtualization capabilities such as management,
automation, and resiliency to address the challenges
of operational inefficiency, infrastructure inflexibility,
and downtime.

KEY BENEFITS
Operational efficiency: Standardize and consolidate
data centers with intelligent and policy-based IT
operations to significantly reduce CapEx by up to
70 percent and OpEx by up to 56 percent1 .
Infrastructure agility: Enable IT to rapidly provision
infrastructure and applications to shorten the time-
to-value of new IT services from weeks to minutes.
The result is an up to 67 percent increase in IT
productivity2 that enables IT and the business to
focus on innovation and high value-add activities.
Operational control: Provide high availability and
business continuity/disaster recovery through
application, server, cluster and data center failures
to reduce downtime of all applications. Policy-based
governance and compliance monitoring ensure that
business rules are enforced and applications have
the right level of security. The result is up to 30
percent more uptime for tier 1 applications 3 and up
to 50 percent disaster recovery management costs 4.
VMware vCloud Suite is a vSphere private cloud
The vCloud Suite enables IT to build and manage a vSphere
private cloud with better than public cloud economics and
deliver strategic IT outcomes.
vCloud Suite contains these integrated products:
Compute Virtualization
VMware vSphere: Worlds leading server virtualization platform
Storage and Availability
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager: Policy-based
disaster recovery and testing for all virtualized applications
Network and Security
VMware vCloud Networking and Security: Networking and
security for a virtualized compute environment
Management and Automation
VMware vRealize Operations: Intelligent performance,
capacity, and configuration management for vSphere
environments
VMware vRealize Automation: Self-service and policy-
based infrastructure and application provisioning for
vSphere environments
VMware vCloud Director: Secure provisioning of virtual data
centers that provide virtualized compute, storage, networking
and security
Additional Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) products
(not in the vCloud Suite):

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Storage and Availability
VMware Virtual SAN: Software-defined storage platform
with breakthrough technology that pools and automates local
storage and turns it into shared storage
Network and Security
VMware NSX: Comprehensive security and network
virtualization that is fully decoupled from hardware
Management and Automation
VMware vRealize Log Insight: Intelligent, real-time log
management and analysis for physical and virtual environments
VMware vRealize Business: Financial management with
transparency into cost and quality of IT services, industry
benchmarking, and budget analysis
What vCloud Suite Delivers?
VC LO U D S U I T E A D D R E S S E S T H E
F O L LO W I N G C U S TO M E R PA I N A R E A S
Operational Inefficiency:
Current data centers are complex, contain too many
silos, have high equipment costs, and require
manual and resource-intensive management that
induces high CapEx and OpEx. IT directors and
managers find it difficult to reconcile IT service
costs and budget in support of business needs.
Infrastructure Inflexibility
Higher expectations from the business that
demands any application on any device and
solutions with instant time-to-value.
Business owners circumvent central IT when they
cant get a satisfactory solution from central IT,
increasing Shadow IT.
Business owners want a quick and painless method
for acquiring IT services from central IT.
It takes months or weeks to provision or scale
infrastructure and applications.
Downtime and Security Weaknesses
High complexity related to managing availability,
security and performance leads to poor system and
application health and frequent critical system
downtime.
After downtime, there is long mean time to
resolution (MTTR) that directly impacts business
productivity.
Growing number of next-generation applications
and devices that must be supported increase
security and privacy concerns.
VMware vCloud Suite
VMware vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations Public
Cloud Extensions / vRealize Automation and vRealize
Operations Management Packs: Hybrid and heterogeneous
cloud support and integration. Self-service and policy based
infrastructure and application provisioning capabilities for
vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure and
operations management capabilities for Microsoft Hyper-V
environments. For a complete list of extensions, visit https://
solutionexchange.vmware.com/store
Additional SDDC services (not in the vCloud Suite):
VMware vCloud Air: Secure, hybrid cloud service operated
by VMware
B Y D E L I V E R I N G T H E F O L LO W I N G T R A N S F O R M AT I O N A L B E N E F I T S A N D
C A PA B I L I T I E S
Operational Efficiency: Virtualization economics and increased productivity
vCloud Suite can standardize and consolidate data centers with intelligent and policy-based IT operations to
significantly reduce CapEx and OpEx. vCloud Suite improves efficiency through:
Server virtualization: vSphere can provide compute virtualization and support for business critical
applications and next-generation big data applications with proven CapEx and OpEx savings.1
Capacity management and optimization: Proactive analysis and smart alerts identify idle and over-
provisioned VMs to right-size VMs and optimize density so that IT gets more out of their infrastructure
investments.
Performance and health monitoring, Quality-of-Service management: Predict and respond to
infrastructure and application issues before they impact service quality to maximize infrastructure utilization
and ensure applications meet their SLA and OLA targets.
Centralized monitoring and management of infrastructure and applications: Customizable dashboards
and 3rd party adaptors provide flexibility to manage unique IT environments at the infrastructure, OS, and
application levels.
Infrastructure Agility: Infrastructure, applications, and services at business speed
vCloud Suite enables IT to rapidly provision infrastructure and applications, which shortens the time-to-value
of new IT services from weeks to minutes. The result is increased productivity that enables both IT and the
business to focus on innovation and high value-add activities. vCloud Suite improves agility through:
Rapid infrastructure and application delivery for vSphere private clouds: Provision complete
infrastructure including compute, networking, security, storage, and applications across multiple hardware
platforms.
Self-service portal and catalog: An on-demand IT storefront enabling authorized users to self-provision
infrastructure, platform, and desktop services improving the time-to-value of business solutions.
Operational Control: Business-aware control for unique IT environments
vCloud Suite provides high availability and business continuity/disaster recovery through application, server,
cluster and data center failures that reduces downtime of all applications. Policy-based governance and
compliance monitoring ensure that business rules are enforced and applications have the right level of security.
The vCloud Suite gives control to IT with:
Protection for all applications with policy-based disaster recovery management: Reliably migrate VMs
and automate site availability workflows for testing, failover, planned migration and failback through
centrally managed recovery plans that are simple to keep up to date.
Policy-based provisioning and governance: Role-based allocation of IT resources governed by costs,
capacity, and business rules with support for approval and lifecycle management workflows.
Rules-based configuration and monitoring of compliance: Protect every virtualized workload with custom
security and compliance policies that follow workloads across data centers.
Proactive analysis and smart alerts: Operational analytics provide rapid discovery and root-cause analysis
of IT issues for substantial reductions in downtime, MTTI, and MTTR.
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How to Buy Support

VMware vCloud Suite simplifies deployment and adoption of the
SDDC architecture and its components with a single purchase.
vCloud Suite is designed for vSphere environments and comes in
three editions: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise.
vCloud Suite Standard is built on the vSphere Enterprise Plus
virtualization platform and adds intelligent IT operations and rapid
infrastructure provisioning to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service.
vCloud Suite Advanced builds on Standards agile and secure
Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering and adds compliant IT that
makes it easy to meet security and compliance requirements.
vCloud Suite Enterprise is a comprehensive offering for resilient,
secure, and compliant private clouds that delivers workload
automation to help reduce downtime and accelerate a business
solutions time-to-value.
VMware offers global subscription and support (SnS) services to
all VMware customers. For customers requiring additional services,
VMware also offers professional services engagements on best
practices and getting started with your deployment, both directly
and through an extensive network of certified professionals.
http://www.vmware.com/services/
Find Out More
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requirements, refer to the product documentation.
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Defined Data Center vCloud Suite. Hopkinton, MA.
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Forrester. (December, 2012). The Total Economic Impact of VMware vCenter
Operations Management Suite. Cambridge, MA.
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Management Insight (2014). Study Shows Business Experience Significant Operational and
Business Benefits from VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. Palo Alto, CA.
4
Forrester. (May, 2013). The Total Economic Impact of VMware vCenter Site Recovery
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