What is a Virtual Data Center?
A VDC or a Virtual Data Center refers to a virtual environment with completely isolated infrastructure. Here, a group of users, controlled by a VDC administrator, develop and manage networking and storage capacity. A virtual data center is a very powerful tool that helps you to break the cloud infrastructure into compartments.
At the same time it is also used to assist organizational isolation along with multi tenancy. The Virtual Data center is created by the cloud administrator who assigns a user group to a specific set of physical resources. The cloud administrator provides at least one of the users with all the privileges of the VDC administrator in order to manage all the virtual resources within the Virtual data center.
GoDaddy Virtual Data Center
With a GoDaddy Virtual Data Center, you can actually develop a VDC with multiple servers working together. This is a cloud hosting feature that enables you to expand your environment exponentially or shrink it according to your requirements. This means you have absolute and complete control over all the servers that you are using along with their configurations.
When you buy a VDC from GoDaddy, you have the option of provisioning your servers at the GoDaddy data centers according to your choice and needs that include creation of templates, adding of load balancers or developing multiple networks. If you are using a GoDaddy VDC for your operations, it is important that you understand how the network works.
As an end user, you will find that for all practical purposes the VDC appears as a single machine with one IP address. This is because as an end user, only the network routing is visible to you which are private one. However, if you want to control and distribute the flow of internet traffic amongst your servers you can add a load balancer.
The following operating systems work efficiently on the GoDaddy Virtual Data Center. They include: Fedora 13, Fedora 14, Cent OS 5.6 and Ubuntu 10.4. At present, the VDC machines are familiar with these operating systems only. This means there is no possibility of installing your own operating system.
A common question that most end users ask is whether your existing server can be upgraded to the VDC. Well, the answer is no – you cannot upgrade your existing server to the VDC. This is because there is no direct connectivity between the other GoDaddy hosting products and the GoDaddy Virtual Data Center. This means migration of content from one server to another directly is not possible.
