Here’s a question I get….well….pretty much DAILY. I published an article a while back on What Can I run in vCloud Air, but that was more about really, technically speaking most things can. Mostly the issue that comes into play that I won’t dive into is the licensing and compliance …
Read More »The Best, Least-Used Feature of vCloud Connector
Most people are well aware of VMware vCloud Connector at this stage of the game. If you are not, it is a FREE tool you can use to copy virtual machines between clouds. Notice I did not say “vCloud’s”, because you can use this tool to move virtual machines between …
Read More »Check Out The New Cloud Academy
I just got word that this just launched today so go check out the new VMware Cloud Academy! There is even a promotion for some free VMworld tickets, so take the quiz and see how you score and get entered! What is VMware Cloud Academy? “Think VMworld technical breakout but available …
Read More »Building a Full Scale Hybrid Data Center
Some people may or may not have seen on the VMware vCloud Blog that I posted a series of articles documenting a very large scale lab build out. The purpose of these articles was to try and drive home some of the examples you can do with Hybrid Cloud if …
Read More »Disaster Recovery Planning Is All About The Application Stack
Having done so much work recently on the vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery, and having done quite a bit of DR planning in past lives, I wanted to touch on a few things that have started cropping up. What I am about to chat about is not something new, but …
Read More »How To Seed a vCloud Air – Disaster Recovery Replication Without Downtime
UPDATED 7/9/2014: This has been tested and is SUPPORTED by VMware Engineering! I got this question the other day, and decided to just test it out. The premise seemed sound but I wanted to see if anything would fail in the process of replication using a live cloned copy …
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