VMware vCloud Director 1.5 gives enterprise organizations the ability to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Coupled with VMware vSphere, vCloud Director delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters by pooling virtual infrastructure resources and delivering them to users as catalog-based services. vCloud Director 1.5 helps you build agile infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud environments that greatly accelerate the time-to-market for applications and responsiveness of IT organizations. vCloud Director 1.5 adds the following new features specific to accelerating application delivery in the cloud:
• Fast Provisioning
• vCloud Custom Guest Data
• Expanded vCloud API and SDK
• vCloud API Query Service
• vCloud Messages
• Cisco Nexus 1000v Integration
• vSphere 5.0 Support
• Microsoft SQL Server Support
• Globalization
• vShield Five Tuple Firewall Rules
• Static Routing
• IPSec Site-to-Site VPN
This white paper addresses three areas regarding vCloud Director performance:
• vCloud Director sizing guidelines and software requirements
• Best practices in performance and tuning
• Performance characterization for key vCloud Director operations
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vcloud-director-perf.pdf
