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 …
Read More »What Can I Run On vCloud Air?
At every VMUG or other community presentation I always get asked the question, “So what can I run on vCloud Air?”. Well being the caring wise guy you all know I am, my response is always a question back. What CAN’T you run on vCloud Air? I jest, but in …
Read More »Real Use Cases For Stretched Networks
I wanted to take a quick poll from some of you out there to help me understand something. With all the work I have done with the Nicira Layer 2 Gateway, as well as the vCloud Connector Data Center Extension, the concept of extending your network to the cloud always …
Read More »VMworld 2013 – Day One Buzz
Well today is the start of Day Two of VMworld and its the first chance I have gotten to grab a few minutes and write some thoughts on the first day. For me this is my 6th VMworld and I think my 5th as a speaker. You tend to lose …
Read More »How To Migrate vSphere Machines To vCloud Air
It’s taken me a bit of time to get to this third post, but with VMworld looming less than a week away, needless to say it’s been a little busy. The purpose of this post is to simply explain some advanced options in using vCloud Connector and Stretch Deploy to …
Read More »What’s Required For vSphere Stretch Deploy To Work With vCloud Air
I have learned that my previous two posts were very helpful, but I made some assumptions in them that people knew what was needed in place to make it all work. That being said I wanted to run through a quick guide to what is needed and how things are …
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