A Virtual Datacenter (vDC) is a collection or pool of resources that groups the resources around specific requirements or business needs. These vDCs can implement boundaries for a private cloud infrastructure, and then can establish Tenant groups on that infrastructure.
Turbonomic discovers vDCs for Private Cloud environments. The private cloud infrastructure provides resources to the cloud, and to the workloads that run on the cloud. To manage these resources, private clouds organize the infrastructure into Provider and Consumer vDCs. A Provider vDC is a collection of physical resources (hosts and datastores) within the cloud stack. A Consumer vDC is a collection of resources that are available to tenant customers so they can manage their workloads. A Consumer vDC uses the resources supplied by a Provider vDC.
For container environments, if you deployed Kubeturbo 7.22.0 or earlier, Turbonomic uses vDCs in the supply chain to represent a Kubernetes Namespace, or a Cloud Foundry Org.