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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 …
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VMworld Group Discussions and Expert Sessions
As with previous years at VMworld, there will be group discussions and expert one on one sessions. These have just been added to the content catalog so you might want to take a look at the ones available. If you have not participated in these before, they are quite fun. …
Read More »VMworld Speaker Interview
Okay I had a little fun this week and I interviewed my co-worker and friend Jay Marshall about his sessions at VMworld. He has 4 total sessions, but there is one in particular you REALLY might want to go to. HBC2609 – Smells Like Team Spirit: Achieve Hybrid Operations Nirvana with vCloud …
Read More »KOA Watkins Glen – Camping Review
Well, it’s been a few weeks since I stayed at the KOA Watkins Glen/Corning location in upstate New York. Julie and I booked this back in February right after we bought the new motor coach and decided we still wanted to go do our annual Wine Weekend. We decided to …
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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