In a typical VMware cloud setup, if you assume that VMware ESX installations are clouds, one needs to export VMs to a temporary location, then import them to another cloud.

VCC does this in one pass, rather than two. VCC links clouds together as an appliance, and completes the task of moving a virtual machine (VM) from one cloud to another without an intermediate stop.

We installed the virtual appliance into our VMware cloud infrastructure, then added the plug-in. Without doing anything more than right-clicking "VM asset objects", we moved a bevy of VM assets from our network operations center (NOC) at nFrame to some handy vCloud instances that we'd provisioned at BlueLock, an cloud hosting service in Indianapolis.

BlueLock is a VMware vCloud affiliate and its vCloud "skies" (host platforms) are credit card-provisioned VMware vDirector-managed resources that can be used ad hoc. Organizations generally keep several instances in readiness until they need them, then turn them (and their cost) on and off as needs arise and expire.