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At the VDC level, the platform can limit concurrent operations that affect the same virtual datacenter, while allowing ones to different VDCs, e.g. vCloud_VDC_1 and vCloud_VDC_2. Through the VDC context, the platform can control concurrency for the many kinds of entities associated with a VM (its firewalls, load balancers, NAT IPs, and backups.
You can choose to allow concurrent operations that change the state of a VM, e.g. powering it on, while limiting VM configure operations.
List of VM operations where the platform controls concurrency
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The platform controls concurrency for VMs, which means the following operations that are managed through the provider/hypervisor, device, or backup manager.
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