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A virtual datacenter offers datacenter infrastructure as a service, so you can run your applications more cheaply and with greater flexibility.
In your VDC, you will find compute resources and other resources, such as volumes and public IPs, that you an can attach to your VMs.
Each VDC has similar features and functionality and each VDC belongs to a private cloud datacenter or public cloud region.
In private cloud, a VDC uses a hypervisor of one type only and in public cloud, a VDC can be created by the provider, e.g. in AWS a VDC corresponds to a VPC, or by the platform.
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Within your virtual appliance folders, you can easily create VMs by dragging and dropping selecting VM templates (or by double-clicking on the VM templates).
And if your environment supports virtual appliance specifications (VApp specs), to create a virtual appliance from a saved configuration, you can just select one of these blueprints.
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When the virtual appliance is deployed, the Deploy button becomes an Undeploy button or a Deploy all VMs button.
To destroy all the VMs and all your data on the hard disks, click the Undeploy button.
Monitor a VM
Your environment may have VM monitoring configured by default, in which case you can open the virtual appliance's Monitoring tab to view metrics.
And you can select the metrics to display and create alarms for VM metrics when you edit the VM.
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