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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 …

So this actually came as a total surprise to me that I have officially been promoted to Sr. Product Line Technical Marketing Manager.  Okay, so what does that mean?  Well first I need to explain my last six years here at VMware since 99% of it was spent in the …

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. …

Many people by now have heard that Julie and I were looking at land in Greenville, TN to start a new home build.  After a nearly combined 65 years in New Hampshire, we decided that we’ve pretty much had enough of the winters here.  That happens to most people at …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …