A couple of weeks ago I posted some information on how the vCloud Allocation Pool Model manages resources with Elastic vDC is not enabled as well as when Elastic vDC is enabled. This is the follow-up post to run through the same scenario except using the Reservation Pool model. The reason I …
Read More »What Makes A Cloud A Hybrid Cloud?
Something I noticed I was talking bout a lot last week at VMworld was the concept of what makes VMware vCloud Hybrid Cloud Service, really a “hybrid cloud”. The funny thing is I asked The Google and TheHostingNews.com has some interesting cloud terms, but I pulled this one quote. Hybrid …
Read More »vCloud Resource Management – Allocation Pool WITH Elastic vDC
A couple of days ago I posted some information on how the vCloud Allocation Pool Model manages resources with Elastic vDC is not enabled. This is the follow-up post to run through the same scenario except enabling the Elastic vDC Option. When you do this some things change. I will …
Read More »vCloud Resource Management – Allocation Pool Without Elastic vDC
Many service providers have been deploying their services using vCloud Director of the past couple years. Of the various models I have seen the Allocation Pool used most often, but there is two ways it can be configured and each way changes the way your virtual machine resources are handled. …
Read More »How To Move Workloads Between vCloud Air Virtual Private and Dedicated Clouds
Yesterday I posted about how you can use the VPN Functionality built into VMware vCloud Air to connect individual offerings in the service together. This is of course useful so that some resources in one cloud can communicate to another. For example you may have a VPC and a Dedicated Cloud …
Read More »How To Use VPN to Connect Multiple vCloud Air Clouds
As a newish member of the VMware vCloud Air Technical Marketing Team one cool thing I get is access to various things to play with and test. Something my whole team has access to in vCloud Air is both a Virtual Private Cloud and a Dedicated Cloud. The unique thing …
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