What is CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)?

The CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is a solution designed to deliver public cloud-like experiences to IT consumers while simplifying management and reducing CAPEX budgets. According to CDW, this product is suitable for IT departments, technology professionals, data center managers, cloud architects, and enterprise organizations.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use such tool to manage our datacenter fabrics. We can easily manage vlan configuration, port-configuration and network documentation from a single portal.
It's very useful when you need to configure a vlan into a port-profile spreaded all around the datacenter, you can just select the datacenter and then type the vlan you need.

Pros

vlan configuration
port-profile management
interface configuration
ipam

Cons

not easy to modify the configuration of a certain interface
manage multiple vendors
manage the directly the devices and from CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) as well

Return on Investment

Cost Savings
Scalability and Flexibility
Initial Investment and Implementation Costs

Other Software Used

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), Cisco Nexus Dashboard, BlueCat Integrity (Address Manager + DNS/DHCP Server)

CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)

What is CDW Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)?

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