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maintain the IT infrastructure. The SDDC is designed to transform the data center into an on-demand service that addresses application
requirements by abstracting, pooling and automating the services that are required from the underlying hardware. SDDC promises to
dramatically simplify data center operations and lower costs.
Our SDDC architecture consists of four main product categories:
Compute
VMware vSphere, our flagship data center platform, provides the fundamental compute layer for VMware environments. A “hypervisor” is
a layer of software that resides between the operating system and system hardware to enable compute virtualization. Users deploy the VMware
vSphere hypervisor when they purchase VMware vSphere or suite versions that include vSphere, such as VMware vCloud Suites and vSphere
with Operations Management (“vSOM”). Sales of VMware licenses that include products beyond the VMware vSphere hypervisor have
continued to grow.
Storage and Availability
We provide many storage and availability products to offer cost-effective holistic data storage and protection options to all applications
running on the vSphere platform. Key technologies in this area include:
Network and Security
Network virtualization abstracts physical networks and greatly simplifies the provisioning and consumption of networking resources. In
addition, security services are built in, do not require purpose-
built hardware, and can scale with the network. Our network virtualization solution
is VMware NSX, which was launched in the third quarter of 2013. Sales volumes of VMware NSX continued to grow during 2014 as VMware
NSX was increasingly introduced into production environments. While the market for network virtualization continues to be in an early stage,
we believe that network virtualization product offerings, including VMware NSX, have the potential to be as transformational for networks as
server virtualization has been for computing.
Management and Automation
Our management and automation products move beyond core infrastructure to manage and automate overarching IT processes involved in
provisioning IT services and resources to users from initial infrastructure deployment to retirement. These IT processes manage virtualized and
non-virtualized infrastructure resources and private and public cloud infrastructures, including hybrid cloud services. Examples of products in
the management and automation product portfolio include:
Software-Defined Data Center Suites
Our SDDC offerings are available separately or may be acquired in a single solution. The VMware vCloud Suite, VMware vSphere with
Operations Management, and VMware vRealize suite are integrated solutions for building and managing a complete cloud infrastructure
optimized for use with the VMware vSphere platform. VMware vCloud Suite is designed to fulfill the promise of the software-defined data
center by pooling industry-standard hardware and running compute, networking and management functions in the data center as software-
defined services. VMware vSphere with Operations Management allows users to optimize capacity and monitor the workload performance of
their vSphere environments. The VMware vRealize suite is a cloud management platform that extends vCloud Suite capabilities beyond a
vSphere private cloud environment to both heterogeneous and hybrid cloud environments.
The following products are available in different configurations of our VMware vCloud Suite offerings:
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Compute
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Storage and Availability
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Network and Security
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Management and Automation
• Virtual SAN—
clusters server disks to create radically simple shared storage designed for virtual machines.
• vSphere Replication— provides cost-
efficient and simple way to manage replication.
• vCenter Site Recovery Manager— leverages vSphere and vSphere Replication to protect applications against site failures and to
streamline planned migrations.
• vRealize Operations—
provides performance, capacity and configuration management for virtual or physical infrastructure.
• vRealize Automation—
enables customers to rapidly deploy and provision cloud services.
• vRealize Business—
provides transparency and control over the costs and quality of IT services.
• vSphere— VMware’s industry-
leading virtualization platform.
• Disaster Recovery Automation with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager— policy-based disaster recovery and testing for all
virtualized applications.
• VMware vRealize Operations—
intelligent performance, capacity, and configuration management for vSphere environments.