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# How-tos

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This guide will help you get started with **VMware Cloud Director** at Glesys, previously known as vCloud. It is a Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) management platform that offers highly advanced workload management features, allowing you to access your virtual data center efficiently. Instead of paying for individual virtual servers, you get a predefined pool of CPU, memory, storage, and network resources to allocate to your workloads. Additionally, you can expand or reduce the pool according to your needs.

## **Prerequisites**

1. Login URL and credentials from the GleSYS VMware Team.
2. Access to a web browser.

## How-to guides

Detailed guides to get started using VMware Cloud Director.

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Virtual Machine creation and management with Cloud Director</strong></td><td><a href="/pages/cbc4SmFBH8H5QGelskIb">/pages/cbc4SmFBH8H5QGelskIb</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Customizing a VM using cloud-init in VMware Cloud Director</strong></td><td><a href="/pages/SlojSVStjxJCe1aYzkn6">/pages/SlojSVStjxJCe1aYzkn6</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Using Terraform to automate infrastructure in VMware Cloud Director</strong></td><td><a href="/pages/2QGhD3n6ULusI6fakZLT">/pages/2QGhD3n6ULusI6fakZLT</a></td></tr></tbody></table>


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