CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) vs. VMware Cloud Director

When an organization anticipates rapid growth or fluctuating demands, CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) offers scalability by allowing dynamic allocation and reallocation of resources as needed. This is beneficial for businesses experiencing seasonal fluctuations or sudden bursts in workload.For very small businesses or startups with limited IT infrastructure needs, the overhead of implementing and managing an CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) solution may outweigh the benefits. In such cases, simpler solutions might be more cost-effective and practical.

Incentivized

For a CSP it's the best choice. For internal uses, even in presence of different business units, it's not so easy and flexible to manage. It assures a high level of multitenancy, often not needed for internal purposes. But it could be used in this case, just not created for these purposes. Network management is great.

Incentivized

• vlan configuration
• port-profile management
• interface configuration
• ipam

Incentivized

• Manages multi-tenancy very well. You can setup resource pools of compute, network, and storage that are independent of each other.
• Easy to create and manage multiple environments.
• Has lease management technology and can easily set leases and expire them based on pre-configured time frames.

Incentivized

• not easy to modify the configuration of a certain interface
• manage multiple vendors
• manage the directly the devices and from CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) as well

Incentivized

• Logging, there is a lot of logging but is not always clear where to look for the right logging.
• The syncing of policy, you can't see if or what he did/didn't sync and the status of it.
• More integrations with VMware product (click like Availability)

Incentivized

Another option was own scripting or maintaining the end users in the backend (vcenter). This costs to much time to maintain (scripting) and has a big change of a Security breach. It was not an option for us either way.

Incentivized

• Cost Savings
• Scalability and Flexibility
• Initial Investment and Implementation Costs

Incentivized

• vCloud Director requires less IT administration. For example, there isn't a need to maintain esx host. or storage administration like creating luns.
• A negative impact is cost. vCloud Director has a monthly cost for storage, processor core, memory, and licensing.

Incentivized