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VMware Cloud Foundation is a unified software-defined data center (SDDC) platform for the hybrid cloud. Composed of VMware vSphere, VMware vSAN, VMware NSX, and VMware SDDC Manager, VMware Cloud Foundation delivers a natively integrated cloud-infrastructure software stack coupled with a cloud management platform.
SDDC Manager features life-cycle management capabilities that automate critical day 0 to day 2 operations for the cloud infrastructure stack, enable rapid provisioning, and use policy-based provisioning to simplify resource allocation.