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VMware vCloud API Abstraction
VMware vCloud API Abstraction
VMware's vCloud platform lets enterprises and service providers run, secure and manage applications in private, public or hybrid clouds. vCloud provides a complete cloud infrastructure to resource compute, storage and virtual services in a dynamic, elastic cloud environment. The vCloud APIs extend the provisioning and management controls programmatically to enterprises and service providers for the purpose of automation using their existing software tools. The Layer 7 CloudSpan CloudClontrol gateway features API abstraction and control capabilities that simplify integration of the vCloud APIs into an end-users automation framework.
The CloudControl gateway delivers protection, abstraction and metering capabilities for vCloud APIs by implementing a configurable API proxy and policy control point for accessing the APIs. CloudControl’s intuitive drag-and-drop policy builder lets you create and enforce API policies that provide for:
- Abstraction and masking of APIs
- Composition/orchestration to create new APIs
- Live dashboard monitoring of API usage
- Versioning of REST and SOAP APIs (beyond vCloud basic versioning)
- Mapping between SOAP and REST
- Transformation of any GET, POST, DELETE, and PUT content
- Authentication (HTTP basic, digest, SSL, but also SAML, Kerberos, X.509 certs, OAuth, etc)
- Cloud single sign-on (SSO)
- Throttling access to APIs
- Fine grained authorization to individual APIs
- Validation of XML structures (such as OVF containers)
- Threat detection, including threats embedded in XML OVF files
- Automatic fail-over between hosts
- JSON Schema validation
- Management of federated relationships
- Fully customizable audit
Like all SecureSpan and CloudSpan gateways, CloudControl is available as hardware, software or virtualized VMware vApp.