A virtual data center (VDC) is a non-tangible abstraction of physical IT infrastructure components designed for business requirements for enterprises. Using virtualization technologies, a VDC offers the same compute and storage, network, and data access capabilities as traditional IT infrastructure, but reduces costs as well as complexity and maintenance, while increasing agility.
Virtualization allows faster provisioning of hardware and on-demand scaling that can accommodate business growth. It also supports agile software development practices and DevOps. This makes it an ideal fit with modern IT architecture. It also reduces IT support and costs, allowing companies to spend more on innovation.
VDCs are built on-premise in an centralized physical location (private cloud) or hosted by a third party which provides cloud services to several businesses simultaneously (public cloud). In either scenario, virtualization of the platform will reduce the cost of maintenance and operations.
The hardware that is used to build and deploy a VDC can be purchased from an individual vendor or leased through an IT managed service provider. It’s sometimes referred to as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) because it combines computing, storage, and network equipment into an entire system that runs software platforms and can scale up and down.
A VDC is compatible with a range of operating systems such as Linux, Windows and VMware. It can be implemented as a hub-and-spoke network design, with the main infrastructure in the hub, and applications and workloads placed in spokes. This architecture matches the structure of the roles and responsibilities. It also provides lower costs by utilizing components and data flow centralization as well as easier operations, management, and compliance.
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