Enterprise IT administrators can be faced with difficult choices when moving their applications toward public clouds. Business-critical applications often require localized, low-latency platforms, and moving to external full-service clouds can limit data sovereignty and location flexibility. Scaling infrastructure in core data centers and at multiple sites may stretch the resources of skilled IT staff and data center infrastructure. FlexPod Managed Private Cloud (MPC) allows IT administrators to enable a private-cloud-as-a-service model to address data sovereignty, location flexibility, and scalable staff resources for their on-premises IT.