VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure management

Infrastructure management helps customers in providing the logic to get the maximum advantages derived for the virtual infrastructure. These features include pooling virtual components and moving virtual resources off a node for maintenance or node failure. It decides the placement of virtual resources on nodes to balance load along with placement depending on business objectives. It is only managed by the cloud admin while others can access this component through APIs (access from other components).

Infrastructure management manages the compute, network, and storage of virtual resources provisioned by the base layer. It also helps in consolidating services to the upper layers for operational services, which are ...