vCloudDirector

vCloud Director is VMware's cloud computing management tool. It manages Infrastructure-as-a-Service architectures by monitoring and controlling various cloud-computing components, such as security, virtual machine provisioning, billing and self-service access. It focuses on private and hybrid cloud-computing infrastructures. The vCD plugin communicates with vCloud Director through its RESTful API using Perl, to allow users to automate and perform datacenter operations on vCloud Director.