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Figure 5-2-4. vSphere Environment After Creating Provider VDCs in VMware vCloud Director.

Step 2: Verify

When you are ﬁnished, click “Manage and Monitor” and click “Provider VDCs” to ensure that the Provider VDC

has been created, that their status is green and that they are enabled.

Figure 5-2-5. List of Provider VDCs.

VMware vCloud Director prepares the hosts associated with the resource pools you have used to create Provider

VDCs. Click “Manage and Monitor” and click “Hosts” under vSphere Resources to ensure host spanning is enabled.

Figure 5-2-6. Verify Host Status.

Provider VDCs help you achieve the following:

 Poolingofyourresourcestogetherbreakingdowninfrastructuresilosandconsolidatingyourresources

furtherhelpingtodrivecostdown

 Deﬁningstandardizeddeploymenttargetsforyourapplicationsandendusershelpingdriveautomation

whichimprovesagilityandlowerscost

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