Need an analogy around vCO and vCloud Director?

April 11, 2011

We recently came across a nice little analogy around vCloud Director (vCD) and vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) from one of the folks over at NetApp on their blog. The article "What is vCloud Director, really?" cleverly equates vCD to the manager of an apartment complex and vCO to the maintenance man who does work for the manager and other managers (products). Please take a moment to learn more about vCO through this analogy and see what NetApp has to offer with their plugin for vCO!

Burke has been a technology professional since 1996 and has held certifications from the CNCF, Cisco, Citrix, ITIL, Linux Professional Institute, Microsoft, Novell, and VMware. He joined VMware in 2007 as part of the acquisition of Dunes Technologies from Lausanne, Switzerland where he had begun his work with Orchestrator. Burke is founder and contributor of the vCOTeam.info blog as well as a leading contributor to the VMTN Communities for Orchestrator. He has been recognized by the community as a vExpert since 2010. During his tenure at VMware, Burke co-created the Orchestrator Masters Training program, has trained hundreds of employees on Orchestrator, built many integrations for customers and partners, and has worked various roles in the VMworld Hands On Labs. He has also been a member, and technical lead, of the SDDC Livefire program, building content, labs, and vPods for the program. Publications include contributing author for ‘VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT)’ (VMware Press 2013) and technical resource for ‘VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook - Second Edition’, ‘VMware vRealize Orchestrator Cookbook, and VMware vRealize Orchestrator Essentials (Packt Publishing 2015), Automating vSphere with VMware vCenter Orchestrator (VMware Press 2012), and VMware vSphere for Dummies (For Dummies 2011).