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 …
Read More »How to Configure Multiple Machines For vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Replication
There is something people have asked as I have done multiple demonstrations of the vCloud Air Disaster Recovery offering is “Can we configure multiple machines for replication?”. Well, with the help of Akeem Jenkins and some lab testing we found out the answer is actually YES. To be honest this …
Read More »vCloud OVF Import Fails From vCenter OVF Export
Today I just ran into a small little issue trying to re-export a virtual machine from vSphere on premises back to vCloud Air. The interesting thing that I discovered with some help was this is caused by old vCloud data in the vApp configuration. This problem happens when you do …
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