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At VMworld 2013 vCloud Air Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) was announced as something coming for VMware Hybrid Cloud. However, recently some people have asked for alternatives while we wait for that to become available. Disaster Recover to vCloud Air is a very attractive use case for a lot …
Read More »Don’t Be Confused VMware HA != VMotion
Okay, this may sound like something of the most basic things to know, but I am posting this as I still hear how these two things are used interchangeably. In most cases, it has to do with trying to design a multi-site vSphere deployment where you are trying to let …
Read More »VMware vCloud Air Runs Windows 3.11
Some may read the title and ask….for the love of God Colotti….Why?! That’s easy to answer. Because we can! I was showing a slide of the vCloud Air supported operating systems this week at the Boston VMUG. While there, fellow VCDX Mark Gabryjelski said to me, “You know I have a working …
Read More »vCloud Resource Management – Reservation Pool
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 »VMworld 2013 Reflection
I will say that VMworld is bar far two of the busiest weeks of my year while working at VMware. This year has been no exception to that. Since joining Technical Marketing, it got even busier for me but I love the interaction and personally I love presenting to all …
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